These nationwide styles remained very different until a counter-movement within the seventeenth to 18th centuries imposed similar types as quickly as again, mostly originating from Ancien Régime France. The starting in Europe of continual and increasingly-rapid change in clothing types can be pretty reliably dated to late medieval instances. The most dramatic early change in fashion was a sudden drastic shortening and tightening of the male over-garment from calf-length to barely covering the buttocks, generally accompanied with stuffing within the chest to make it look bigger. This created the distinctive Western outline of a tailored high worn over leggings or trousers.
The seems of the French court have been disseminated through prints from the sixteenth century on, however gained cohesive design with the development of a centralized court beneath King Louis XIV, which produced an identifiable fashion that took his name. At the start of the 20th century, fashion magazines …