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Fashions
VICTORIANS saw fashion as showing their social class through cut, color and the material of the garment. It was thought ....
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VICTORIANS
saw fashion as showing their social class through cut, color and the material of the garment. It was thought that no matter what ones class was one should try to dress the best one could. It was during this period the sewing machine, paper patterns, and the thousands of woman fashion magazines showing the latest fashions from Paris, London, and New York for which Victorians looked for fashion appeared.
Victorian shopkeepers ever mindful of the demand for fashion imported dresses, fabrics, laces, ribbons, and the opening of Macey’s in 1858 and Nieman Marcus in 1897 helped to keep the Victorian lady in fashion.
The fashionably dresses Victorian women would wear several customs each day. Each costume having its own accessories; costume accessories may have included gloves, hats, fans, handkerchiefs, hair ornaments and jewelry.
1830's - 1840's Fashion
In the 1830s a A line ankle length skirt with a lower more natural waist line, large puff sleeves and large hats are in fashion.
1840s sleeves become tighter and narrower, restricting arm movement and increasing the appearance of a demure lady. A corset is worn around an elongated waist with a floor length dome shape skirt that almost always closes at the back. The dress is worn over stiffened petticoats made of linen material woven with horsehair called a Crinoline (french for crin and lin meaning horsehair and linen). Different styles of white collars and sleeves are in fashion.
Shoes or boots until the 1860s are square toe with flat heals and are made of stain for formal occasions, cloth or leather for everyday wear.
Bonnets with a brim concealing the face and caps; parasols; mittens and gloves (declining during 1850s-1860s); and purses are all in fashion.
Shawls were worn from the late 18th century and into the 19th century. The shawls were large fitting over the wide skirts and in some cases almost touching the ground.
Hair is parted in the middle and pulled back over the ears in many cases. Younger women may have dangling curls.
1850's Fashion
A cage crinoline in 1856 made of steel or whalebone hoops to help support the enlarging dome shape skirts and required just one petticoat to be worn is in fashion.
A plain, pointed front and back bodice (1840s - early 1860s), with a dart on each side, and Pagoda sleeves is worn. The front fastening one piece dress is worn over a shorter corset. The collar on the dress is several inches wide and is lays flat on the shoulders.
Victorian Fashion 1857 - taffeta ensemble front view
Amelia Bloomer in 1850s attempts dress reform by proposing a costume known as bloomers. The costume, a dress with a loose fitting simple bodice, a wide skirt just below the knee under which are a pair of loose fitting ankle length trousers.
The upper middle class in 1856 wore a dress with a low cut shoulder line which exposed the neckline and shoulder; the style is called the bertha.
In 1856 aniline dyes are discovered by Sir William Perkin, allowing for clothing in the colors of magenta, mauve, and bright pink.
In 1857 Charles Frederick Worth and Englishmen working in Paris opens a fashion house displaying unsolicited gown designs on live models. For the next thirty years Worth remained the lead fashion designer during the Victorian era with queens and princesses as clients.
Victorian Fashion 1857 - taffeta ensemble back view
Boots have a heel and may be decorated with tassels or bows. Slippers and boots may have square or round pointed toes, bags are embroidered with beads, and bonnets show more of the face and sit farther back on the head.
Women have a ringlets, puffs, or coils of hair covering the ear.
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