women including pencil skirts and shorter, knee-length dresses. Women paired these items with matching pillbox hats. The seventies brought the era of the hippie, and peace and love became popular themes brought out in fashion. Eclectic is one way to describe the popular fashion. Many women began to pair multiple colors together creating a psychedelic scheme. Women began to wear many different articles of clothing. Some women wore natural fabrics and long flowing skirts with sandals. Others wore jeans and T-shirts with bright accessories. The headscarf was also popular during this era. Farrah Fawcett was popular at the time and a major fashion icon. The eighties began the last supermodel era. Women favored an athletic, lean build with slight curves. The fashion of the eighties was all over the place. Bright colors with big curly hair was very popular. Brightly colored blue and pink makeup became popular. This was also the age of the exercise craze. Women became obsessed with being thin and fit. Exercise tapes on aerobics and step classes became a common household item. Cindy Crawford reigned over the fashion world during this era. The nineties swooped in with the beginning of grunge and androgyny. Supermodels like Kate Moss severely influenced a thin waifish body type as one to strive for. This era saw a drastic
The Shield
rise in anorexia and other eating disorders as women tried to obtain the famed body type. Women wore more traditionally “male” clothing; fewer skirts and dresses, and more pants and shorts. Also high-waisted shorts and pants were popular with cropped shirts and tube tops. The early 2000s brought low-rise bootcut jeans, big statement belt buckles,
Women follow stars like Zendaya, the Kardashians, Beyoncé, and Instagram-famous fashion and beauty icons.
crop tops, drastic blonde highlights in brown hair, and more natural makeup. This was a period of diversity. Certain styles of garments never made it out of the early 2000s and some women want to forget that they ever wore cargo pants or platform flip flops. This decade, so far, has brought
about the rise of high-fashion streetwear. Women follow stars like Zendaya, the Kardashians, Beyoncé, and Instagram-famous fashion and beauty icons. Makeup is at an all-time high with women contouring their face to give a very structured look. Also, highlighting the face and dewy skin to create a natural glow has become popular. Defined, full natural brows have been on the rise thanks to stars like Cara Delevingne. Anastasia Beverly Hills launched a line of brow products that redefined the industry. The modern sentiment of what it means to be beautiful is the most diverse that has ever been popularized by the media. Hopefully, this means that society is becoming more open-minded about what it takes to be considered beautiful. Who knows if the industry will revisit some styles from the past? Cargo pants might make a return or low rise jeans and crop tops. Or maybe the standard of dress for women in the future will be skirts or dresses that are floor length and long sleeved. Fashion is fickle, and trends come and go, but someone who is confident will always stand out.
11