Danzon (1870s)

 

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 Why is it that, in the 1800s, fashion mostly stayed the same, but in the 1900s, it changed each decade?

 

 John Dewar Glessner

It was because of (1) print media such as magazines, books, newspapers and other methods of spreading knowledge of clothing, (2) urbanization, where people competed in how they looked, (3) increasing wealth and social mobility, allowing the means to buy new clothes, (4) the efforts of clothing designers, manufacturers and sellers to promote clothing sales, and (5) more modern machinery that could mass produce textiles, thread and sewing machines, making cloth easier to obtain and cheaper.

 

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Fashion by Decades 

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-that-in-the-1800s-fashion-mostly-stayed-the-same-but-in-the-1900s-it-changed-each-decade 

 

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Alejandro van Rooy

Fashion in the 1800s did change every decade too! The speeding of fashion started in the XVIIIth century with the popularity of “fashion plates” (the forerunners of fashion magazines), which helped the latest trends to permeate all layers of society. By the 1770s fashion changed so fast that the length of a dress or the shape of a bustle changed year by year, and novelty prints or colours were a one-day fad. By the mid XIXth century the invention of the sewing machine, industrial looms, “artificial silk” (rayon), and the rise of department stores made high fashion accesible to an increasing number of middle class consumers.

 

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Catalogue of works for piano by Alejandro Garcia Caturla 

(Catálogo de obras para piano de Alejandro García Caturla)

http://www.pianolatinoamerica.org/e_caturla/e_caturlaarti.html

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Danzon / Instrumental

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Danzon / Dance

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