Fashion in the period 1900 in European and European-influenced countries continued the long elegant lines of the 1890s. Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's broad hats and full “Gibson girl” hairstyles. A new, columnar silhouette introduced by the couturiers of Paris late in the decade signaled the approaching abandonment of the corset as an indispensable garment of fashionable women. Young women adopted the tall, stiff collars and narrow neckties worn by men.
With the decline of the bustle, sleeves began to increase in size and the 1830s silhouette of an hourglass shape became popular again. The fashionable silhouette in the early 1900s was that of a mature woman, with full low bust and curvy hips.

The Roaring Twenties was a time when people got together for lots of parties. Costume Craze has a 1920's Costume for you like a Flaper Costume, Gangster Costume, or a Zoot Suit Costume. You will be ready to dance the Charleston in one of Costume Craze's 1920's Costumes. 1920s was the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. Women first liberated themselves from constricting fashions and began to wear more comfortable clothes (such as short skirts or pants) in the decade. Men likewise abandoned overly formal clothes and began to wear sport clothes for the first time. The suits, which men wear today, are still based, for the most part, on those that were worn by men in the late 1920s.

A black top hat is a tall, flat-crowned, broad-brimmed hat worn prior to and including the 19th and early 20th centuries. Now, it is usually worn only with morning dress or white tie, as servants' or door attendants’ livery, or as a specific rock culture fashion statement.
Top hats started to take over at the end of the 18th century. Within twenty years, black top hats had become popular with all social classes, with even workers wearing them. At that time those worn by members of the upper classes were usually made of felted beaver fur, while those worn by working men were made of rabbit fur; the generic name "stuff hat" was applied to hats made from fur.

The bowler hat, also known as a coke hat, derby or billycock, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for Edward Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.
The bowler hat was devised in 1849 by the London hat makers Thomas and William Bowler to fulfill an order placed by the firm of hatters Lock & Co. of St James's. Lock & Co. had been commissioned by a customer to design a close-fitting, low-crowned hat to protect his gamekeepers' heads from low-hanging branches while on horseback. It was also hoped that the new style of hat would protect the keepers if they were attacked by poachers.

After an 18th Century hiatus where the tricorn and bicorn (also known as the cocked hat) supplanted the high hat as the fashion of the day, the high hat, in its new iterations, most notable the stove pipe shape that we now know as the top hat, returned to rule the day in the very late 1700s.
Freudian psychologists had their own interpretations on these brown top hats and those who wore them regarding them as obvious phallic symbols. As funny and impractical as top hats may seem to our modern ideas on fashion, they have stood the test of time.