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2. Victorian fashion - Wikipedia

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   Many myths and exaggerations about the period persist to the modern day. Examples include the idea of men's clothing is seen as formal and stiff, women's as elaborate and over-done; clothing covered the entire body, and even the glimpse of an ankle was scandalous. Critics contend that corsets constricted women's bodies and women's lives.

3. Women in the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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   Riding clothes for women were made at the same tailors that made men's riding apparel, rather than at a dressmaker, so female assistants were hired to help with fittings in order to preserve norms of women's modesty. [50] Camels were imported to Australia during the Victorian era; even then, women were expected to ride sidesaddle (Queensland ...

4. Women's suffrage and Western women's fashion through the ...

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   Advocate Amelia Bloomer, wearing the "freedom suit.". The women of the late 19th century changed their style from the big Victorian dresses to more “manageable, practical, streamlined outfits for modern women to engage in the activities of their more active lives."

5. 1795–1820 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. NYFW: Anna Sui puts a modern spin on Victorian fashion - AOL

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   NYFW: Anna Sui puts a modern spin on Victorian fashion. Julia Webb. September 10, 2019 at 4:15 PM. Anna Sui brought the fun to NYFW on Monday evening, thanks to her playful Spring 2020 collection.

7. 1870s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Victorian Women's fashion: 1870s; Victorian Women's Fashion, 1850–1900: Hairstyles; 1870s Men's Fashions – c. 1870 Men's Fashion Photos with Annotations; From Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art, Ohio State University : Reda silk brocade tea gown, c. 1876; Brown challis tean gown in Liberty of London fabric, c. 1877 ...