Saturday, October 17, 2009

Old Fashioned Fashion

   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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