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They were all the fashion once and if they had never gone out of fashion... OK, it can swing between Gypsy tops and peasant blouses or change style, but once they come they will stay the perinatal trend. Will it reach tipping point and all the catwalks only show then in time and the other feminine tops die out in the West and Latin America by 2001?

Gypsy tops and Peasant blouses OTL data
Gypsy tops

Gypsy tops are another feminine variety of T-shirt. In general a Gypsy top is white, have short puffed sleeve s that are gathered in at the shoulder and bottom, (balloon sleeves), a low-cut boat necked, décolleté or scoop necked neckline, full or cropped-off loose fitting bodice and for the most part have either lacy, frilly or embroidered decorations on the neckline, hems and cuff s since the 1970's [] [] []. Flora wore such tops in the Winx Club 's 2006 series []. There are now other more revealing, knitted, or ¾ length sleeved versions to.

Their origins
The Gypsy top was derived from the short sleeved tops traditionally worn by Gypsies in Eastern and Central Europe. As a modern fashion article, Gypsy tops and peasant blouses first occurred in the USA in the 1930's as the original Eastern European styled peasant blouses had first appeared in the USA during 1936. They had embodied patterns, puff sleeves of various length and the fabric was in various colours on most 'Slavic styled' peasant blouses [] [].

By the 1940's the shortages caused by World War 2 had caused them to become more of a pretty looking up-market, embroidered, T-shirt than anything else [] [] []. During the 1940's the Americans created the 'Spanish style' or 'Gypsy style' blouse. The item was basically a 3/4 leangth or short puff sleeved white t-shirt with a gathered neckline that was worn under either a drab coloured Bolero jacket, Bolero jacket/bolero ise waistcoat or Bolero jacket|bolero shrug jumper and along with a long, coloured flamenco skirt []. It was taken from Spanis and Portugese suff of the turn of the 19th/20th cenutries.

1950-1998
1952 saw the modern, white, off the solder décolleté neckline and short (ballooned) puffed sleeved style come in to being in the USA. Both the coloured fabric and long sleeved versions were still going around at this time [], while the posh t-shirt continued on during the decade []. The neckline became smocked and or frilly in the 1980's, with knitted versions having Crochet work collars in the 1990's.

They were both still liked in U.S to a degree in the early 1970's and early 1980's []. When they permanently took on their present balooned sleeved, smocked and crocheted form and started to spread to the British Isles, Ierland, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, France and Switzerland as a passing fashion article the early to mid 1980s. They then became briefly popular with some UK teens in the mid 1980s. Popularity declined the U.S. and the British Isles up to the late 1990's []. The bodices were rather tight in the 1990's, baggy, in the 1980's and 2000's, and normal or lose fitting the rest of the time.

The comeback
Gypsy tops were also briefly popular in the UK, France and Ireland from about 1998 [] [] [] to 2002. They briefly caught on in parts of the USA Italy, Mexico, Estonia, Brazil and Argentina during the mid-2000s. Layla and Flora wore them in the show's 2006 series []. They have been generally out of fashion since then. The mid 2000's some have become more revealing around the chest like this one worn by America’s Christina Aguilera in 2007 [], while others types are now also being knitted with Crochet work collars or ¾ length sleeved in the UK and Ireland as of the late 2000s [] [] [] []. They still occurred as children's ware in 2010. As of 2011 they became children's ware and the term was used for any fashionably styled teenage or young adult t-Shirt or blouse, epically a teenage lacy type with ballooned sleeves, a décolleté neckline and frilly edging, and including the genuine article in it's lists. [].

Peasant blouses
Their origins As a modern fashion article, Gypsy tops and peasant blouses first occurred in the USA in the 1930's as the original Eastern European styled peasant blouses of about 100-50 earlyer. It had first appeared in the USA during 1936. They had embodied patterns, puff sleeves of various length and the fabric was in various colours on most 'Slavic styled' peasant blouses [] []. By the 1940's the shortages caused by World War 2 had caused them to become more of a pretty looking up-market, embroidered, blouse or T-shirt than anything else [] [] [].

1950-1998
The modern idea of the 'peasant blouse' styled tops, were those mostly worn during and occasional before the 1960s. They had a squire neckline or scooped neckline and long puffed sleeves that were gathered in at the shoulder and wrist, baggy sleeves or flared sleeves that were wider at the wrist than at the armpit, like those traditionally worn by the people of Eastern European []. They mostly became fashionable with the hippie movement in North America during the 1960's [] [], up until 1969 [] [].

They were still fashionable to a degree in the U.S.A. during the early (1970)s [] and late (1977) [] 1970's. The remained in intermitant use up until the mid 1980s in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Ireland The UK, the USA and Australia..

By 1978 a type of 'Bavarian style blouse' had also emerged in the USA. It consisted of a plain white blouse with a gathered necked with ties and long puffed sleeved worn with a dark coloured corselet and skirt [], which has now largely gone goth [].

The comeback
The 'Bavarian style blouse', corselet and skirt set took off with some teenage girls in the late 1990’s [], and has gon goth [].

Peasant blouses were the in thing with peater pan cloars in Mexico in 1995-2000, V-necks for Ecuador in 2005-2009 [] [] [] [] [] and with scoop necks for Ecuador [] and Bolivia in 2008. They still occurred as children's ware in 2010 and 2011. As of 2011 they became children's ware and the term was used for any fashionably styled teenage or young adult t-Shirt or blouse [], epically a teenage lacy type with ballooned sleeves, a décolleté neckline and/or frilly edging since 2012.