Image courtesy of Dalhousie University
Image courtesy of Dalhousie University

From the Archives: Fifteen Decades of Student Fashion

November 22, 2015 /

The 9th season of Atlantic Fashion Week will be taking place Nov. 19-21. In honour of this exciting tradition (that I first learned about while Googling excuses to include the Mr. Fluck ad featured below), please enjoy the following decade-by-decade history of campus fashion as depicted in advertisements and articles of the Dalhousie Gazette.

1870s

1

 

1880s

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1890s

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1900s

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

1910s

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920s

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930s

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940s

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950s

7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1960s

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1970s

9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1980s

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1990s

11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2000s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010s

13

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John Hillman

John Hillman is the Gazette's Opinions Editor. John is a second-year law student, but he has been at Dalhousie for much longer than that. Recently discovered cave paintings indicate he was first observed lurching around campus by Halifax’s original human settlers some time during the late Pleistocene epoch. He started writing for the Gazette back when you were in elementary school, but he unexpectedly went off the grid a half-decade ago to concentrate on helping found Punditry.ca, a DSU-focused political blog. Where exactly was he hiding between the years 2009-2013? Certain individuals would prefer he not comment. Why has he returned? Not because of a top-secret Illuminati indoctrination project known only as the Omega Initiative, that’s for sure. You can email John at opinions@dalgazette.com.

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