Minimalism to Millennium.

No one particular style defined women's fashions in the 1990s. Skirts were long and short, depending on the season. Blouses were either modestly romantic or daringly sheer. Pants could be wide-legged or tailored. No color seemed to dominate, as designers showed—and women wore—fashions in everything from grays, blacks, and whites to blues, pinks, and reds. Vogue took this view on the decade in its July 1998 edition: "In fashion, it's been a dizzying ride. Early on, designers set impossibly strict standards for women, stripping down style to monk-like minimalism. That period was followed by a no-holds-barred revival of all things lavish and ornamental. But now the pendulum has swung toward a less extreme middle ground, a place of understated luxury and a quiet, very modern comfort. The nine-ties as we see them now are about a less constructed...