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Evening dresses designed by Racine, showcasing lace high-low-skirts. Art-Goût-Beauté, 1929. The high-low skirt has a full circle hem. However, the length varies from short in front to long in back. The style originates in Victorian era dresses and formal gowns, when the hem style became known as the "fishtail".
The hair was middle parted with the sides puffed, 1850. Hair was dressed simply, middle parted and in a bun or wound braid at the back, with the sides puffed out over the ears or with clusters of curls to either side in imitation of early 17th century fashions. The indoor cap became little more than a lace and ribbon frill worn on the back of ...
Dress of 1898 shows a short, wide puff at the shoulder over a long, tight sleeve. Charvet corsage of 1898 shows a corsage by Charvet. It is a blouse of pink cambric finely plaited, and with a white cascade frill, also of cambric, down the center. Shirt-waist from Charvet in 1898 shows a shirt-waist from Charvet. It has a group of tucks down ...
The fashionable corseted figure of 1883. Hair is swept up to the top of the head, and the front hair is frizzled over the forehead. Princess-line walking dress (left) and hunting costume (right) from La Mode Illustrée, 1880. Summer dresses of 1882 show Aesthetic influence in the small-scale floral prints.
This fashion was short-lived (though the bustle would return again in the mid-1880s), and was succeeded by a tight-fitting silhouette with fullness as low as the knees: the cuirass bodice, a form-fitting, long-waisted, boned bodice that reached below the hips, and the princess sheath dress. Sleeves were very tight fitting.
In the early 1900s, clothing included a lot of decorations, such as lace or frills. This was also adopted in wedding dresses, where decorative frills and lace were common. For example, in the 1920s, they were typically short in the front with a longer train in the back and were worn with cloche-style wedding veils. This tendency to follow ...