About Us

www.gfashionpk.com is based in the Pakistan based site Fashion-era looks at women's costume and fashion history and analyses the mood of an era. Changes in technology, leisure, work, cultural and moral values, homelife and politics have all contributed to lifestyle trends which influence the clothes women in particular choose to wear. These are the changes that make any era of society special in relation to the study of the costume of a period.

New eras always herald new fashions. New fashions are invariably old fashions with a fresh twist, be it a new fabric or a new way of wearing or accessorizing an outfit. We look at fashion and accessories, beauty, makeup, hair and body adornment, jewellery and materials, and other innovations which highlight the new trends and define the era in which we live.

We suggest British museums to visit, paintings to view and contemporary books to read. If you teach we provide some costume silhouettes and outlines for you to download and duplicate for school use in history and craft lessons. We give you tutorial tips on making fashion workboards or storyboards for college interviews. We encourage you to experiment and try fashion sketching and send in your sketches to display in the fashion galleries.

Pauline Weston Thomas has been an honours Dress, Textiles and Design graduate and British qualified teacher since the 1970s. At university she also gained 2 distinctions in her subject field and waseum exhibition of costumes made for the BBC production The Six Wives of Henry VIII in the early 1970s. Growing up, Pauline loved historical costume productions on TV especially serializations of the Dickens and Austen novels. She adored Irene's famous sexy, black lace dress in the original black and white version of The Forsyth Saga and was thrilled 3rd year student prize winner. She has been interested in women's fashion, textiles and costume in history since age 3. From 1979 she taught practical and theoretical aspects of fashion, garment construction, costume and fashion history, textile science and consumerism to students as well as to teachers and lecturers of the subject within Great Britain.

Current interests include developing web site and web graphic design skills. Other interests include creative fashion design, tailoring, pattern drafting, machine embroidery, computer linked machine knitting, reading, interior design and making soft furnishings, sugar craft, cooking and entertaining. Her favourite sport is shopping until she drops. Her other favorite sport is people watching for trends.

Costume history has been a real passion since she saw a mus

with the costumes in the colour production of the Pallisers and the Onedin Line. Nowadays she finds it hard to sit through a TV production without analysing a sleeve or a silhouette, or feeling alarmed at the inappropriate use of synthetic fabric which drapes differently to the natural fibres found in authentic costumes. Apart from working on her website in the past few years, Pauline has also found time to verify antique costumes from Castle Howard.