Fashion Through the Decades

What this quiz asks

• Which decade is most associated with flapper dresses, bobbed hair and the Charleston?
• Which company's founder patented riveted denim work trousers with the tailor Jacob Davis in 1873?
• The bikini, unveiled in Paris in 1946, took its name from what?
• Which London designer is credited with popularising the miniskirt in the 1960s?
• Bell-bottom trousers were worn by sailors long before they became a 1970s fashion.
• In 1926 Vogue compared which designer's little black dress to a Ford car, a simple design for every woman?
• Which British model, born Lesley Hornby, became the face of 1960s fashion?
• Select ALL of these items of clothing that are named after a person.
• Christian Dior's 1947 debut collection, with cinched waists and full skirts, became known by what name?
• Did the classic Dr. Martens 1460 boot get its name from the date it was launched?
• The word denim comes from a sturdy fabric made in which French city?
• Nylon stockings first went on sale in the 1950s.
• Which tennis champion put a crocodile logo on his cotton polo shirts in 1933?
• Select ALL of these looks that are most closely linked to the 1990s.
• In 1966 Yves Saint Laurent caused a stir with a version for women of which garment?
• Which Italian designer dressed Richard Gere in the 1980 film American Gigolo?
• Which designer launched the jersey wrap dress in 1974?
• Which designer was fired by Perry Ellis after sending a grunge collection down the runway in 1992?
• In what year did Vogue magazine publish its very first issue in New York?
• Put these fashion classics in order of first launch, earliest first.