Female servants originally buttoned women's gowns from the back, leading to buttons being placed on the back rather than the front of women's clothing. This placement is now continued out of custom. While most women prefer the top button of blouses to be open, some designs allow for comfort while maintaining style. Additional ornamentation is sometimes placed over or on top buttons. Sleeve lengths have shortened over time, being at the elbow or shorter currently to give the illusion of slimmer arms. Blouse styles have gone through various phases incorporating elements like double cuffs, pointed collars, and synthetic fabrics.
Female servants originally buttoned women's gowns from the back, leading to buttons being placed on the back rather than the front of women's clothing. This placement is now continued out of custom. While most women prefer the top button of blouses to be open, some designs allow for comfort while maintaining style. Additional ornamentation is sometimes placed over or on top buttons. Sleeve lengths have shortened over time, being at the elbow or shorter currently to give the illusion of slimmer arms. Blouse styles have gone through various phases incorporating elements like double cuffs, pointed collars, and synthetic fabrics.
Female servants originally buttoned women's gowns from the back, leading to buttons being placed on the back rather than the front of women's clothing. This placement is now continued out of custom. While most women prefer the top button of blouses to be open, some designs allow for comfort while maintaining style. Additional ornamentation is sometimes placed over or on top buttons. Sleeve lengths have shortened over time, being at the elbow or shorter currently to give the illusion of slimmer arms. Blouse styles have gone through various phases incorporating elements like double cuffs, pointed collars, and synthetic fabrics.
Female servants originally buttoned women's gowns from the back, leading to buttons being placed on the back rather than the front of women's clothing. This placement is now continued out of custom. While most women prefer the top button of blouses to be open, some designs allow for comfort while maintaining style. Additional ornamentation is sometimes placed over or on top buttons. Sleeve lengths have shortened over time, being at the elbow or shorter currently to give the illusion of slimmer arms. Blouse styles have gone through various phases incorporating elements like double cuffs, pointed collars, and synthetic fabrics.
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Female servants were in charge of buttoning their mistress's gowns (since the buttons were usually
in the back). They tired of attempting to deal with buttons that were, from their point of view, backwards and, as such they started reversing the placement when making or repairing them. Another possible reason is so that men can easily undo blouses as, from the front, buttons are on the same side as a man's shirt. One other theory is that women were normally dressed by their maids, while men dressed themselves. As such, women's blouses were designed so it could be easily buttoned by the maid but that of men were designed so it could be easily buttoned by the person wearing it. Although in all the cases proposed the reasons for the distinction no longer exist, it continues out of custom or tradition. While most women prefer to have the top button open for better comfort, some blouses made for women have looser necklines so the top button can be fastened without compromising comfort, but giving the same stylish appearance. Some women attach various pins and ornaments to their blouses over a fastened top button for style. Some of these attach directly to the button itself, others to the collars. Some blouses do not have a top button at all, and collars are styled to be open. They also form part of some nations' traditional folk costume. The "good blouse" concept is part of the nightlife's clothes and a status symbol of the so-called "elegant woman" who was wearing it at least on Sundays in the Church formerly. Today is the blouse, important other than its use as a formal office wardrobe, and is often used as a colorful garment among many that also is likely to put openly is worn over a T-shirt or a knitted top.
Styles since World War Two[edit]
Various new and different forms of collar emerged in the 1920s. They diminished in sizes by the 1950s, but were huge in the 1930s. At the beginning of the 1970s was the rounded collar, sausage dog collar, then extra wide collar and double cuffs from shirts, that fell on them often from fashions relating to synthetic fabrics like usually polyester. The fashion of standing and federal collar, loops, rounded collars, haemoglobin collars[vague], and the smallest collar, sometimes with concealed button fly on a "smoking blouse", attached folds and stressed set-in-followed in the 1980s. Again, thin and often shining synthetic fibres were very popular. Towards the end of the 20th Century they were of an extra-long blouses of pants style and worn over trousers or skirt worn, optionally combined with a rather wide belt around the waist in the Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, the UK, Ireland, South Africa and the USA. The sleeves had been shortened during the early 1950s to the and length in Europe. They were reduced again in the mid-1990s and are now regularly at the , , and length around the world. As the eye will be drawn to the naked flesh below the sleeve designers often use sleeve
length to focus the minds eye on the slimmer parts of the arm, particularly short sleeve blouses below the elbow to give the illusion of a slimmer arm. Sleeveless tops were fashionable and a topical item in Western Europe and America during the mid-2000s. Many fashionable styles of both the 1970s and 1980s were on the go again after the millennium in the blouse fashion: double cuffs, extra wide pointed collar, belt around the waist, synthetic fibre and the like. Often the blouses also embroidery or "crystal stocking", have especially on collar and string. The blouses with the so-called three-quarter arm were a striking phenomenon of the 1990s. Blouses can be combined well and easily with a blazer, tank top, bolero or sweater, with or without some colourful silks or bead chain necklaces.
Eco movement[edit] As part of the Eco movement's folk blouses for women were cut from natural materials such as flax, linen and cotton. Men also wore these "Frisian blouses" on occasion.
The blouse jacket or blouson[edit]
Main article: blouson The blouse jacket or blouson is garment drawn tight at the waist with blousing hanging over the waist band. The new style of man's chetten lose blouse coat is made of stronger material or with inner lining, which can be worn alone or as a jacket or over a separate top is related to. It is related to the Eisenhower jacket.
