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For women, the styles of hats changed over time and were designed to match their outfits. During the early Victorian decades, voluminous skirts held up with crinolines, and then hoop skirts, were the focal point of the silhouette. To enhance the style without distracting from it, hats were modest in size and design, straw and fabric bonnets ...
1840s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; The Romantic Era: Fashions 1825–1845; 1840s Men's Fashions — c. 1840 Men's Fashion Photos (Daguerreotypes) with Annotations; Men's fashion plates of the 1840s at Victoriana.com
In the 1930s, when it became respectable for women to wear pants and shorts in a wider range of circumstances, styles imitating men's shorts were favored, and bloomers tended to become less common. However, baggy knee-length gym shorts fastened at or above the knees continued to be worn by girls in school physical education classes through to ...
1870s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; History of 1870s bustles Archived 2012-09-14 at the Wayback Machine; Victorian Women's fashion: 1870s; Victorian Women's Fashion, 1850–1900: Hairstyles; 1870s Men's Fashions – c. 1870 Men's Fashion Photos with Annotations
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
For such reasons, some Victorian history paintings of the Napoleonic wars intentionally avoided depicting accurate women's styles (see example below), Thackeray's illustrations to his book Vanity Fair depicted the women of the 1810s wearing 1840s fashions, and in Charlotte Brontë's 1849 novel Shirley (set in 1811–1812) neo-Grecian fashions ...
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The women's sack-back gowns and the men's coats over long waistcoats are characteristic of this period. Fashion in the years 1750–1775 in European countries and the colonial Americas was characterised by greater abundance, elaboration and intricacy in clothing designs, loved by the Rococo artistic trends of the period.