A Colorful History of Rainbow Fashion
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 29. 06. 2024
- Ever since we managed bright and colorful dyes centuries ago, we've been combining them in as many ways as possible! It's no surprise that the rainbow has been an inspirational part of fashion for just as long. Whether it's embroidered arches or multicolor ombre, it doesn't take long to track it back centuries. In fact, it's been so influential we invented entirely new technology to make better rainbows, and then named it after them! So, today, I'm going to be showing off some of the most eye catching variations of this theme for the beginning of Pride Month! From Tudor to Victorian to the roaring 20s, being colorful has always been a fashionable choice.
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00:00 ROYGBIV
02:51 1600-1800 Brocades
05:39 1800-1850 Ombre Shading
09:15 1850-1900 Stripes to Aniline
12:33 Fancy Dress
13:57 1900-1930 Colorfast
15:24 1930-2000 Technicolor
17:34 Pride & More - Jak na to + styl
When you mentioned it wasnât until the 90s that the gay pride rainbow became more known to the general public, I had such a strong flashback to 1997. Working for a large national retailer in a smallish Midwest college town, where we were allowed to put little stickers on our name tags, and I had a wee little rainbow flag on mine for a few months. Then the famous Ellen show coming out episode aired, and suddenly I had coworkers who now knew what the rainbow flag meant âoh youâre like Ellenâ đ Thank you, this was great! đłïžâđ
I have the same exact story but I was clueless and straight and just liked rainbows. That was a humorous sitcom like misunderstanding.
@@BeppyCatan honorary gay lol
I know! I love rainbow clothes and being a straight woman they ruined it for me. It makes me a little angry but because I now feel I can't partake in the wearing of it as being an older single woman, I'd be mistaken as gay. Well that's just a little reason. I'm not s hater, I just want to not be judged in that way (and a few others that aren't of this type) . It kinda feels like an attack on women and children. The whole debate and what changes they are making with the bathroom and sports and pushing that life onto impressionable little kids. They need to find that path themselves! They're taking it to far with the 2 above. I mean really, do you think it will only be gay men in the womens bathroom/locker room? I feel they just don't care. Push that agenda. and that's what it is (I feel firmly). I get why the rainbow was chosen. It just ruined it for straight woman.
@@memeju1ce very honored, thank you đ
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not at all what I was saying.
I was simply relating a humorous misunderstanding that was easily cleared up and caused no harm.
I do not agree with all of what you've said at all, and will proudly wear the rainbow now because I love it AND it promotes allyship.
I might not date every kind of person, but I love them and want anyone to feel safe with me.
1920âs tie-dye?????? Nicole, I am DYING for that video on tie-dye. I am not a huge fan of wearing it but I grew up with a hippy mom making it every summer and I am ALWAYS looking for ways to bring it back into my life and learn to love it. Pre-70âs Vintage tie-dye sounds like just the place to start, and I canât think of anyone other than you to trust cover such a topic thoroughly and with meticulous research!!!! âšâšâ€ïžâ€ïž
I wanted to be that hippie mom but only got as far as tie dye.
Bianca at Closet Historian did a couple of videos last winter(?) that might tie you over until we get our serious deep dive here.
It is ancient Japanese technique called shibori. Tie dye is its bastardized cousin of simplified techniques.
@@pmclaughlin4111 Oh I didnât realize she had, I love her!! Thanks for the heads up!
@@lenabreijer1311 Oh yes, Iâm familiar with that! Although from what I know, thatâs typically using only one color, often indigo, as opposed to the staple of tie die being a larger spectrum of color. Iâm also aware of related techniques like Batik, but I was mostly surprised to see Western adoption (appropriation?) of the techniques as early as the twenties. Iâm sure if Nicole does a deep dive video it will include both techniques, and maybe even others Iâm not familiar with!
@@AndromedaCripps no it was and is done with different colours also. Batik is a different technique using resist paste or wax. I have done both. I did look it up a lot for historical reasons but that was pre internet days so only what I could find in libraries. My batik teacher was Indonesian my shibori teacher had studied in Japan.
I love the fact that I can now make a 1890s walking suit in a black tweed with rainbow speckles in full knowledge that it would be historically plausible. X3
there are so few history youtubers who use *primary sources* for information so I just wanted to say I appreciate that lol, info gets so off track so fast when people just repeat info they see elsewhere
Amen!đ»
I'm so appreciative as well! I save so many of her videos for that reason. They're a branching off point to dig deeper into whichever topic is featured.
Agree!
Content isn't really worth my time if it's just another repeat of some other popular costubers project. I cringe whenever I click and hear, "recently I saw blah blah make a cape, so here's my cape!"
Like, I already have a few of those content producers blocked for a reason, and it filters down anyway. You can't escape. Lol
It should be the standard too, if at possible
@@xWood4000 should be, but it definitely isnât. even a lot of âreputableâ sources, websites etc just parrot info from elsewhere that parroted info from somewhere else that is so often wrong or at least oversimplified. thatâs ironically why primary sources are so important with history stuff
My daughter dressed up as a rainbow for Halloween when she was 10 years old or so. It was a shiny rainbow stripe sheath dress with the stripes vertical and sheer white billowy sleeves. It was as fun for me to design as it was for her to wear. Challenge. Challenge accepted!
That sounds so cute!
My pet theory is that the black 18th century gown with colorful embroidery belonged to a woman who was really happy that her husband died.
Oh now I want Nicole to do a series on mourning clothing...Remember the shocking scene of Scarlett dancing with Rhett in Gone with the Wind...
Lol, my first thought on this was that it was created by a widow in confinment, bored out of her mind
My theory is that it was an up-cycled mourning gown that was remade after the mourning period either for a different occasion or a new user.
It's so amazing to imagine generations of rainbow lovers out there in multiple cultures - despite our current obsession with beige some of us are still holding the rainbow torch! đ
Oh, so thatâs why block printers use the term ârainbow rollâ when referring to ombrĂ©! It definitely tracks that we would use a term that old
I just got home from Salida,Colorado USA. I forgot they were hav their pride celebration this weekend. I had chosen to wear one of my fav t shirts- FEATURING ALL THE COLORS! This 60 ++ grandma type got more hugs than the law allows. Best day ever to celebrate the beauty that is humanity!!! So hereâs to whatever you love: best wishes and unending love.
People have always loved color. Why wouldn't they adorn themselves brilliantly? I loved this. Happy Pride
When I was in college, we read medieval writers' descriptions of Heaven, and it was almost cartoonish the amount of color they described. My professor pointed out that's because they didn't get to see the amount and intensity of color like we do everyday, so of course that amount of color would be only something you could see in heaven.
Happy pride!!
Two important rainbow fashion icons of the late70s and early 80s: More and Mindy with Robin Williams' iconic rainbow suspenders and tshirts. Everyone needed those suspenders. And right after: The reading rainbow on PBS was showing up on tshirts. The mass media tie in with creating an ubiquitous youth fashion trend.
(which sounds like something We will be blessed with in a future episode...)
I feel like every kid I knew either had a pair of those suspenders, or really wanted one.
I would love to see a early 20th century fashion designers reaction to hearing their work be described as "hippie princess Leia vibe"
Oof that pastel ombré petticoat made me gasp! This was fascinating. Happy pride!
Those 70s dresses are to die for
Agreed! So gauzy and beautiful
That checkered one with the trailing sleeves! đđđ
I have a 1976 dress from my grandmother that's green with massive rainbow coloured flowers all over it and floor-length sleeves. It's so dramatic and fun to wear.
Happy pride!
I just finished an Edwardian era petticoat with rainbow trim to flash people my skirts all month
And that's why the creature from Lisa Frankstein choosing a very colorful outfit with rainbow pants straps is very fitting
Lisa Frank stein wears rainbow h7h
Lisa Frank stein wears rainbow h7h
I used a Mrs. Depew copy of a 1920s Drecoll pattern to make a gown. I used green velvet and then did the vestee and high-low skirt lining in rainbow tie dye silk. I totally thought the silk was a modern departure from history and here you are proving it isnât a crazy idea for the 1920s! I love, love, love this video. Rainbows forever đ!
watching this while crocheting a rainbow baby blanket :D
Would you consider covering the stage fashions of the first few decades of the Ziegfeld girls? Some of those costumes were WILD. Or the way draped fabrics were used in the photography pf Alfred Cheney Johnston. Iâm 100% sure youâve see his work.
This was me in the thrift stores today, âDoes this feel rainbow đ?â
Nicole, this video is a genuine delight. I have such a bone to pick with the Hollywood idea that the past was either brown or gray or cream or black. Maybe a washed out blue or red, if you're lucky. People have always been people!!! We like colors!!! We always have liked colors!!! Vibrant, clashy, obnoxiously in-your-face colors!!!
Youâve done it again! Youâve taken a subject down paths we would never have expected so that we can learn things we couldnât have imagined. Brava! You are a Treasure! Thank you, thank you!
That scarf, together with the green the highlights on your fringe looks fantastic.
I think "Made with the intention of displaying either a number of colors associated with the weather feature, OR directly featuring a rainbow" is the best definition of "rainbow." because at some point it was just color for the sake of it, for showing that you CAN do that
I find it amusing that the popular view of Victorian fashion is that everyone wore black or white, but in reality, trendy Victorian clothing would make your eyes hurt from all of the color.
I didnât know that was the popular view. Maybe itâs cause Iâve seen so many vividly, you might even say tacky, Victorian houses in their original colors.
Especially the patterns in the 1830s, oof. I think it was in one of Nicoleâs other videos, Iâve seen a full menâs suit (trousers, jacket, and waistcoat!) made entirely of bright orange & green plaid wool.
â@@JessieBananaThat reminds me of one that I saw- purple with white or beige trim. I immediately wanted to live in it đ
I wonder if that perception is influenced by common modern depictions of Regency era color choices. So many Jane Austen adaptations feature ladies in white or light colored dresses and men in dark coats.
@@myladycasagrande863 I think it has more to do with black and white photography and the use of Victorian in mourning wear in modern media. The average person hasn't seen real Victorian dresses in person, and it isn't always the easiest to tell what color a dress is based on a black and white photograph.
Oh my gosh, that pastel rainbow petticoat at 10:57 is gorgeous!! I want it!! And it feels surprisingly modern because of the pastel rainbow gradient--it would look right at home in a Selkie dress.
I thought the same thing! Literally looks like something off a selkie cat walk! I love it. Absolutely obsessed
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Hi Nicole, greetings. Great video. I love colour despite having red/green colour blindness. People think I can't see green or red. People don't understand colour blindness. I'm so happy that their are apps that help with this issue. I really do not look good in either black or white. So I tend to go for blues, rosy pinks, reds and purples. Love your stuff.
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Thank you for celebrating pride with this big ol' bear!
Happy Pride! That most delicate pastel rainbow petticoat was incredible! I also adore that you included those scraps of a textile from 200-800CE that survived with such strength of colour! I think archaeological textile finds are so incredibly special, just these relatively tiny fragments of perishable material culture that make the distant past seem much more vibrant and alive. I'd love to see a whole video on archaeological textiles, the kinds of things we've learned just from textile fragments, or even a video on textile conservation more broadly.
Love the detail with which you research textiles. The fabric printing illustrations really explained a lot. I must tell you that I had to make buttonholes by hand this week. I looked at several books to figure out how, but your complete guide to buttonholes was just the ticket. My sewing machine won't make buttonholes, so I was pleased that these looked so beautiful when done. Thank you or a great tutorial. Now onto finishing that linen blouse waiting for buttonholes for two years.
Iâd love to see you do tie dying! Especially if you can do some projects with them later. Tie dye is one of my favorite things to do- pity I canât really do a whole wardrobe of it and still look professional for work!
That sounds like a challenge! I wanna see it done. But i dont ever have to dress professional lol
We really need to change societyâs notion of âprofessionalâ - can you do your job adequately? Yes? Youâre a professional, wear what you want!
rainbow fashions, my favorite
You only missed one iconic rainbow example from the 70s: the rainbow suspenders Robin Williams wore in Mork and Mindy. I had a pair in high school in the 80s and judging by my yearbook pics I wore them a lot! Great video!
Omg I feel like I've never seen such a style of clothing/print for the 1910s/20s! Granted, I don't believe I ever really gave it focus, but I am now ready to go down the rabbit hole of fashion of that time. Thank you for exposing me to this! â€
You are making me nostalgic for a pastel rainbow-colored dress that I sewed in the mid-1980s. Sadly, the dress long ago was sent off to Goodwill. I hope some young thing discovered it and that the dress is now living its best life at a Pride festival.
My high school honor society was VIBGYOR, and I still recite the colors of the rainbow in that order.
I would argue that the rainbow shading definition is more real life accurate. since the rainbow we se in the sky is just a gradient of all colors visible to us. So not splitting the colors up and having them as a gradient would be more fysisks accurate. Like everything else even the rainbow is a spectrum đ
That rainbow nightcap is so much fun. Do they have any data on whether the colors are similar now to how they would've looked at the time? I always think of the blue forest.
I once almost bought a spumoni colored dress from 1922 (couldnât afford it), and got to re-create an hombre dress from the later 1920âs for a play; the colors on that one reminded me of the groovy late 1960âs. Itâs so fun to encounter the originals, often more colorful than one would imagine. â„ïžâ„ïžâ„ïž
The amount of colours in a rainbow was actually really interesting! I think for me the red, yellow, green, blue, purple makes more sense, orange doesn't quite feel like a 'real' colour as much as a mix of red and yellow. Maybe it's also a language thing? Of course oranges, pinks and purples have been around for a long time as well as their colours, but as a 90s kid in Finland I still remember learning orange as 'yellowish red' (kellanpunainen) and purple as 'blue-red' (sinipunainen) in tandem with the loan words (oranssi and liila/violetti respectively).
No mention of Joseph (and his Amazing Technicolor Coat)?
This was wonderful! I am looking forward to your 1920s and 1970s tie-dye tie-in!
As a Viking age reenactor I know a lot of folks who are into their natural dyeing who have a whole rainbow of yarns and fabrics to show off, and as I've been getting into weaving with naturally dyed yarns lately I think I'm going to have to weave myself a rainbow belt now! If I do a simple rigid heddle loom and use a white yarn for the weft, I could weave it as a sort of checkerboard of white and rainbow, lots of possibilities and while it might not pass muster at a show it'll be authentic enough for my queer viking heart to be satisfied
Have you heard about the Norse pink faux fur coat?
@@bluesSGL i have!! It's on my list of things to make in the far future, I do have a pile-woven trim going on the back burner but it does take ages to do, I also have some madder root set aside for dyeing it authentically pink
Best Dyes of Colorado is also known as Grateful Dyes. Theyâre the suppliers and dyers for Grateful Dead culture. You may want to talk to them, they have fantastic directions on fiber reactive dyes and tie dying.
I absolutely love your research-based videos! Thank you so much for all of the work you do in preparing. They're fun to watch. Happy Pride month, everyone! Would you show us shoes that you've designed one day?
Crazy some of the fabrics you showed I own very small bits of! I've started repurposing them to make frozen Charlotte clothing and jewelry for my etsy shop. I'm so happy I can bring joy back to forgotten things! â€
Funny, I dressed as a rainbow đ in 1979⊠I wore white overalls and had rainbow colored suspenders⊠painted my face rainbow colors⊠I know I have a photo đ€Ł
If Zachary Pinsant doesn't get a reproduction of that night cap, I'm gonna be disappointed
This was so interesting. I'd never considered that rainbow colors mightve been popular before the last 60 years. Happy pride ~!
You found some incredible items to show in this video, I think this is my favorite video of yours you've ever done!
I'm always happy when you release a new video, this did not disappoint. Happy Pride Month!
I had no idea tie-dye was a thing in the 1920s, but that's pretty cool. đ
So many beautiful fabrics and dresses! My favorite jacket from the late 80s (?) was a black 1:23 tweedy jacket with rainbow threads going through it.
Love the coat linings with the rainbow or ombre fabric.
That pastel rainbow petticoat was wonderful.
So many beautiful garments! Happy pride đłïžâđđłïžââ§ïž
I want so many of these garments! So pretty!
What a fantastic topic to explore! Thank you for sharing all of these images, I knew about a few of them already but it's so exciting to see such colourful fashion from history. I'm really looking forward to your video on tie dye whenever you make it!
WOW i loved all this information and the pictures were so pretty đ đ the clothes looked so sturdy and well done and GLAM âš I love how rainbow is just rainbow sometimes:3
Completely fantastic,loved all your historical sources,very inspiring! Added plus the lovely peacock shimmer of your bangs,a bit of wizard of oz styling. Thanks!
I loooooove love love rainbows and bright colours and I'm thrilled you've made this video! I have gotten so much inspiration from this, it's bookmarked for what will undoubtedly be many many rewatches đđ
Thank you so much for this video! These are all so much fun!
I loved the shoes with the âcarvedâ heels it must have been thrilling for the owner to slip her feet into them for the first time.
I really appreciate you, Nicole! Happy Pride Month to you as well!
I'd say it needs at least red, yellow and blue - as you can make the other colours from those three.
This was an incredibly informative and interesting video. So much thought and care. And beautiful imagery choices. đ
Thank you. This deep dive into rainbow is great.
The point about block printing: yes, it is a labor-intensive process, but that's how it was and often still is done in India, and the European mechanization of the process was developed to undercut Indian producers
Great video, Nicole! Happy pride everyone đđłâđđłââ§đ
at 13:20 that spiderweb dress!!!!!
Wow, some beautiful fabric and outfits!
Love learning about colour history! Great video!
Well done Nicole. Loved the the 19th century gowns. In the 60's, my teenage yrs. We had colors called Madras. A form of fabric like tie dye, very popular with hippies! Very interesting info
That was a lot of fun. Thank you for your hard work.
You should make some of these designs it would be amazing to see them in motion and all the details in real life
Gret research, awesome use of color.
I adore this video and all of the examples!
Needed this right now
Thank you
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Every English đŽó §ó ąó „ó źó §ó ż UK đŹđ§ schoolchild knows that way to think rainbow đ
To me, for something to be rainbow without all the colors, it needs a red/orange, a yellow/green, and a blue/purple.
wow--thank you!! i especially love the 60s diamond print...!
Thank you, I really enjoyed the video.
Great video! Fascinating!
Iâd never heard of Lisa FrankâŠ
Oh, right. Iâm đ”.
Thank you! That was very interesting :)
I love that black silk gown
the rainbow petticoat is soooo gorgeous
I hope that you get around to that tie-dye video soon! I'm going to be doing some tie-dye and batik dyeing with my students in art next semester
Thank you!!! Great video!! âźïžđ
Great stuff, thanks đ©·
I love your lectures. Happy Pride month.
- Cathy (&, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Great video!! Thanks!
Wow, that Kelly green is your color! †Loved this video.
Loved the informative video and all the examples.
When I was in a very remote village in the mountains of Nepal, I was given what they called an âApronâ-not what we would call an apron-that was black with tie dye rainbow circles all over it. I wish I could post a picture of it. This is their traditional clothing, and it is beautiful.
I remember as a young teen in 1981, all I wanted was a huge rainbow on my bedroom wall...
Brilliant - fun and unique video!
I can't wait for the tie die video and it is interesting that it originated in the 1920's rather then the 1960's which is what I think of when I think tie dye
What a wonderful topic for a video! I wonder if other natural phenomenons and celestial bodies as motifs and fashion inspiration might be interesting to look at as well?
Perfect video for me to have watched today, was supposed to go out to a pool party but health and rain are keeping me in today, happy pride month to all the Lovelies.