By Michelle J. Hoppe W hen America's history is considered comparatively with the rest of world, she is indeed a young country. Not only is she young, but by nature of her settlement, she is a diverse mixture of culture and customs.
Fashion is no exception.
American fashion has always been influenced by European design, particularly Paris. Both the Empress Josephine and the Empress Eugenie were instrumental in establishing fashion trends. Their tastes spread to England then to the Eastern United States. From the fashionable cities of New York and Boston, fashion trends migrated to the Western coast and eventually to the less populated Western states, sometimes as much as five years after the style originated. Fashionable American women did not wear their Paris creations right away, however.