When fashion knows how to age really well: 10 garments and accessories that are more than 100 years old (and maybe you don’t know)

COmpiere 100 years It is a remarkable milestone, also in fashion. And, most likely, you would never imagine that Some of the garments or accessories that you are used to wearing, or that you often see around, have already reached this goal.

That’s right: those sneakers In canvas that have accompanied you since birth, that most loved waxed jacket also by Royalsor those exclusive and distinctive luxury bags that are so desired – in the true sense of the word – born yesterday. They actually boast a century of history and even morethey were created in a world that was extremely different from the one in which we live today, conceived for utility, contexts and motivations in turn different from those that push us to wear them still today.

We immediately let the images and stories enclosed behind those who seem common pieces to speak fashion: find out which are the Ten garments And accessories who are more than 100 years old. And that – it is appropriate to say – they bring them really well.

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The converse All Star

A pair of converse all star sneakers.

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Our list begins with them, the Converse All Star. Sneakers In rubber and common use, they turned one hundred in 2023. They were in fact designed In 1923 From Chuck Taylor, basketball player who conceived them for this sport. Over the years they have become a piece cult And they have tied themselves to a stylistic imagination rock thanks to the members of several musical groups who loved to wear them, such as Kurt Cobain or the Beatle George Harrison.

The tweed by Chanel

Tweed Chanel jacket

A Tweed Chanel suit, 1963.

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Among the emblematic pieces of the Maison Chanel we count unmistakable bags, shoes and a particular material: the tweed. If the accessories arrived around the fifties of the last century, and also the famous suit Synonym for elegance, the use of tweed In his collections he made his first appearance in the 1920s. In particular from 1924when after knowing this material thanks to its attendance with the Duke of Westminster, he begins to use it to create clothes and complete with sports lines.

The Tiffany Setting ring

A Tiffany® Setting engagement ring.

A Tiffany® Setting engagement ring.

Its essential and contemporary lines do not easily betray its origins, but the famous engagement ring Tiffany setting He has passed the hundred years for quite a while. Designed in 1886 by Charles Lewis Tiffany, overlaps a silhouette In Fedina a diamond with a brilliant cut, which is thus emphasized in all its shine and its profound meaning.

The trench by Burberry

TRENCH BURBERRY

Two Trech of Burberry portrayed in 1974.

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One of the first things that jump to mind when you think of the Burberry brand is him, the trench. Absolute protagonist of the history of brand English, this boss was born in 1879 at the hands of the founder of Burberry himself, who had the intuition of using the fabric gabardine To conceive a water -repellent but at the same time breathable overcoat.

The Superga

A pair of Superga 2750 shoes.

A pair of Superga 2750 shoes.

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Let’s go back to talking about shoes with another model that calling famous would be an understatement. Born right in 1925 On the tennis courts (it was in fact conceived by the founder of the brand for his wife who was a tennis player), the Superga 2750 with its canvas combined with the vulcanized rubber sole has become an institution well beyond the red earth.

The barbour

King Carlo Barbour

King Carlo Portrait with a Barbour jacket in 1978.

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Today emblem of the festival style, Barbour’s waxed jacket actually has a very long, very long story that begins well before the twentieth century. In fact John Barbour founded his company, dedicated to the production of clothing, in the decidedly far away 1894launching a special overcoat for his finish cerato, ideal to resist English rains. Become the emblem of the style British And of the subculture Mod, we have also dressed the members of the royal family for generations.

The bag Haut in Couries by Hermès

A Haut bag in Couries by Hermès.

A Haut bag in Couries by Hermès.

The very desired Birkin And Kelly They will have to wait several decades to blow on their first 100 candles, but Hermès’ arrival in the world of leather goods has already had its celebrations. The first bag model created by Maison in fact he was born in 1900. It is the Haut in Courroisdesigned to transport the boots and saddles of the knights and distinguishable by its trapezoidal shape that makes it a perfect travel company.

The clock Santos of Cartier

Santos Cartier watch

A contemporary Santos Cartier watch.

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There is no need to be maximum experts in the watch of watchmaking to know the Santos of Cartier, one of the most prestigious watches. It has been for over a century, because It was conceived back in 1904 (and marketed from around 1910) by Louis Cartier for the aristocratic and pioneer friend Alberto Santos-Dumont, who needed a practical and easy to read in flight. It was a real revolution in the context of the watchmaking as it was worn on the wrist, found unusual (and winning) in an era in which the models were purely pocket.

There Keepall by Louis Vuitton

A Keepall model bag by Louis Vuitton.

A Keepall model bag by Louis Vuitton.

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Let’s go back to talking about bags with another of the longest -running brands in this camp, the maison French Louis Vuitton. Founded in 1857 as a specialized company in suitcase, over the years it has become a reference for bags of bags and although one of the models that most distinguishes it, namely the Speedyis not yet a hundred years as they were born around 1930 (under the name of Express), there is another very famous piece that has already celebrated the finish line of the century. It is the Keepallthe travel bag launched in 1924 From which the famous trunk derives and which, unlike this, is larger and has two central reinforcement bands made of cowhide leather.

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The Borsalino hat

Carlos Gardel Borsalino

The Argentine author and singer Carlos Gardel portrayed with a Borsalino hat in 1915.

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We close our journey through the centenaries of fashion with another great piece that made history, the Borsalino hat. A creation born in 1857 and proposal, in the most contemporary version that we know today in soft felt with front dimples and folding on the crown, already In 1870.

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