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Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former name of the city of Chennai in south India .
Madras became a staple of preppy American fashion in the 1960s after advertisers spun its tendency to bleed in the wash as a selling point. Madras became a staple of preppy American fashion in the ...
1817: Madras Literary Society is founded. 1819: Madras Eye Infirmary, later the Egmore Eye Hospital, is established. [38] 1826: Board of Public Instructions is founded. 1831: First census in the city is taken (population: 39,785). 1832: Madras Club is founded. 1834: First survey school is inaugurated; later develops as an engineering college.
A traditional four-piece costume. The Wob Dwyiet (or Wobe Dwiette), a grand robe worn by the earlier French settlers. The madras is the traditional pattern of the women and girls of Dominica and St. Lucia, and its name is derived from the madras cloth, a fabric used in the costume.
The history of Medieval European clothing and textiles has inspired a good deal of scholarly interest in the 21st century. Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard, and Kay Staniland authored Textiles and Clothing: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, c.1150-c.1450 (Boydell Press, 2001).
Madras was the capital of the Madras Presidency, also called Madras Province. Bazaar at Madras, from The Graphic, 1875 By the end of 1783, the great 18th century wars which saw the British and French battle from Europe to North America and from the Mediterranean to India, resulted in the British being in complete control of the city's regional ...
History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent can be traced to the Indus Valley civilization or earlier. Indians have mainly worn clothing made up of locally grown cotton . India was one of the first places where cotton was cultivated and used even as early as 2500 BCE during the Harappan era.
Overview of fashion from The New Student's Reference Work, 1914. Summary of women's fashion silhouet changes, 1794–1887. The following is a chronological list of articles covering the history of Western fashion—the story of the changing fashions in clothing in countries under influence of the Western worldâ —from the 5th century to the present.