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Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly from the 1830s through the 1890s. The period saw many changes in fashion, including changes in styles, fashion technology and the methods of distribution.
Victorian women's clothing followed trends that emphasised elaborate dresses, skirts with wide volume created by the use of layered material such as crinolines, hoop skirt frames, and heavy fabrics. Because of the impracticality and health impact of the era's fashions, a dress reform movement began among women
In the 1960s and 1970s many women in Tarawa, Kiribati and a few i-matang women wore a garment which was referred to as a Mother Hubbard. Whilst the lower half of the body was covered with a wrap-around ( lavalava ) or a skirt, the top half was worn a very loose low-necked blouse short enough to expose a band of flesh at the waist.
The hourglass became the iconic corset shape. They are featured in the media; often the image of the corset shown is of a "woman clutching a bedpost while their maid pulls and pulls at the corset strings". [2] The hourglass corset accentuated slim waists and broadened the bust, shoulders and hips.
Victorian dress reform was an objective of the Victorian dress reform movement (also known as the rational dress movement) of the middle and late Victorian era, led by various reformers who proposed, designed, and wore clothing considered more practical and comfortable than the fashions of the time.
Woman wearing a dress with a bustle, US, about mid-1880s. The bustle reappeared in late 1881, [14] and was exaggerated to become a major fashion feature in the mid and late 1880s, in 1885 reaching preposterous proportions to modern eyes, as used in the play Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. The fashion for large bustles ended in 1889. [15]
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1860s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; 1850s and 1860s Fashion; 1860s Men's Fashions — c. 1860 Men's Fashion Photos with Annotations; Fashonik Updos for long hair Archived 2016-05-20 at the Wayback Machine; 1864 Wedding Dress — Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute