Women's clothes have always changed accoding to current fashion but probably never as much as the late 1800s. Crinolines, hoop skirts, and bustles all adorned women who were also confined in restrictive corsets. In those days, most women learned about new trends through the use of fashion plates, which were inserted in various popular publications. Here's a selection of plates from that period.
1860s Fashion
Godey's Magazine 1870
1870s Fashion
1860s Fashion
1882 Fashion
Modelès de Madame Carlier 1897
1880s Fashion
Morning Dress 1880
1883 Fashion
Hats 1898
Godey's Magazine 1874
Dress 1893
Godey's Magazine 1874
The appearance of "bloomers" in the 1870s raised the question of who wears the pants in the family?
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