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28 gru 2013 · 1960s The mini While the mini skirt in Britain was personified by Twiggy, Ireland had a very different mini-embodiment. A young civil rights campaigner called Bernadette Devlin was busy...
8 sie 2023 · The history of fashion and traditional clothing in Ireland reflects a marriage between indigenous and homegrown clothing and inspiration from neighbouring traditions. The léine, for example, pronounced as ‘lay-nuh’, is a traditional Irish tunic-style apparel which would be made of linen or wool.
16 mar 2023 · In their prime, during the 1950s and 60s, fashion designers Sybil Connolly, Irene Gilbert and Neillí Mulcahy – three remarkable Irish women and members of the Irish Haute Couture Group – dressed some of the most famous women of the time, including Jacqueline Kennedy (who wore a pleated Irish linen Sybil Connolly dress for her official ...
Bright colours, hoops, polka-dots and imaginative design were the hallmarks of ladies' fashion in the late-'50s and early '60s. There wasn't much disposable income and of course budget chain-stores had not arrived in Ireland but yet, girls took a great pride in their appearance and dressed very well, especially when going to a dance.
11 gru 2022 · Fashion in 1960s Dublin was therefore a mix of modest and modern: skirts and sleeves got shorter while boots got longer - but even traditional, full-length styles were updated.
RTÉ Archives looks at some of the experiences of women in Irish society, from the housewives who washed their husbands' socks by hand in 1960s Dublin to the era of Ireland's first female...
This exhibition shows that although some Irish men and women dressed in a traditional manner, particularly in remote rural areas, the majority of the population wore clothing which reflected changing fashions and was influenced by fashionable dress in other parts of Europe.
