Figure 1.--An Italian botique offered these outfits in 2002 for the holiday season. The children wear coordinated outfits with green plaid material. Plaid is a popular pattern for holiday clothing. Notice the older boy's short hair cut.

Italy is another country of some interest to HBC. Italy is known for stylish clothing. As Italy is such a large country noted for fashion, our assessment of European fashion trends requires that information be developed on Italy. We do not yet have, however, much information from Italian catalogs and advertisements. Hopefully Italian reades will be able to provide us some information to expand this section of HBC.

Garments

Italian mail order catalogs and advertisements offer a great deal of information on specific clothing styles and garments worn over time. We are at this early stage of developing our catalog archive focusing primarily on the chronological pages. We will eventually list these pages in both sections. We have some catalog pages without dates which we are initially archiving here.

Chronologies

Italian mail order catalogs and newspaper advertisements offer a very useful time line on changing fashion trends. I am not sure precisely when mail order catalogs first appeared in Italy. Nor do we know to what extent catalogs from neighboring countries could be used. Fashions magazines were also of some importance. HBC has begun collect mail order pages. Advertisements appeared in the newspapers before the first mail order catalogs appeared.

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Created: November 28, 2002
Last updated: November 28, 2002