Modern fashion trends offer us many elements of styles from the distant past, from corsets to sleeves in the Art Nouveau style and even completely Victorian high-necked dresses. While creating a fashionable look with elements of retro styles, it is interesting to know how women of those years actually dressed. mystylex.techinfus.com/en/ offers to evaluate the fashion of tsarist Russia in color photographs of the early 20th century.

Thanks to photography, we can have an idea of ​​fashionable outfits and accessories from the middle of the 19th century. Only all photographs of that time are black and white and mostly staged. In those years, photos were not taken just like we do today. Every photo was prepared, it deprives the photo of some vitality. But the most important thing is the lack of color.

In most cases, the lack of color makes the image look poorer. Shades of gray rip off the richness of colors from the past from us. An inexperienced viewer forms a mistaken opinion about the life and fashion of our ancestors, it seems that they lived in gray and were extremely gloomy. In fact, this is not the case, even in the Middle Ages, fashion was distinguished by bright colors.



In the 19th century and early 20th century, the fashion industry was able to offer fabrics in a wide variety of colors and prints. Color photographs from Tsarist Russia, like a time machine, take us into the past and demonstrate the style that our ancestors wore.

Glossy journalists and fashion experts like to repeat - Russia does not have its own fashion industry! There is some truth here, our designers cannot compete with famous brands in terms of business organization, and our models go to Europe, the USA and Asia to make real money. Moreover, fashion in Russia has always been of paramount importance.



In Tsarist Russia, fashion was available to few, then real couture fashion was the privilege of the nobility, it was they who could afford luxurious handmade dresses. Since the time of Peter the Great, the Russian aristocracy changed into a European style and very quickly succeeded in the art of dressing chic and keeping up with the fashion trends of its time. Clothes were brought from Europe and sewn by local craftswomen.

And the rest of the people dressed in simple clothes sometimes with elements of a national costume, but this made them look no worse than the average people of our time. Today, clothes cost mere pennies and are available even to the homeless, but then clothes were treated more carefully. Today we are again thinking about rational consumption and respect ...