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2. 1700–1750 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Children older than toddlers continued to wear clothing which was in many respects simply a smaller version of adult clothing. Although it is often said that children wore miniature versions of adult clothing, this is something of a myth. Girls wore back-fastening gowns, trimmed much more simply than women's.

3. 1795–1820 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   For women's dress, the day-to-day outfit of the skirt and jacket style were practical and tactful, recalling the working-class woman. [3] Women's fashions followed classical ideals, and stiffly boned stays were abandoned in favor of softer, less boned corsets. [4] This natural figure was emphasized by being able to see the body beneath the ...

4. Red Hat Society - Wikipedia

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   The poem begins: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple, with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.” Cooper wanted to encourage her friend to grow older in a playful manner. [ 3 ] Cooper repeated the gift to several other friends upon request, and eventually several of the women bought purple outfits and held a tea party on ...

5. 1750–1775 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Women's clothing styles emphasized a narrow, inverted conical torso, achieved with boned stays, above full skirts. Hoop skirts continued to be worn, reaching their largest size in the 1750s, and were sometimes replaced by side-hoops, also called 'false hips', or panniers. [1] Court dress had little or no physical comfort with restriction of ...

6. 1870s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Bustles and elaborate drapery characterize gowns of the early 1870s. The gentleman wears evening dress. Detail of Too Early by James Tissot, 1873.. 1870s fashion in European and European-influenced clothing is characterized by a gradual return to a narrow silhouette after the full-skirted fashions of the 1850s and 1860s.

7. 1890s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Standing woman in a white dress with leg o'mutton sleeves. By René Schützenberger, 1895.. Fashionable women's clothing styles shed some of the extravagances of previous decades (so that skirts were neither crinolined as in the 1850s, nor protrudingly bustled in back as in the late 1860s and mid-1880s, nor tight as in the late 1870s), but corseting continued unmitigated, or even slightly ...