.. was worn with a dress that had much less drapery and fabric than the many decades before. While the structure was huge, the dress itself was slimmer, more fitted to the body, and the bodices was much more severely tailored to fit than those of 1879-1882. (Sketches: Both from …
… All of a sudden, seemingly out of nowhere, in 1883, every woman had to wear a huge, shelf like structure jutting out of her rear end like the back of a horse. The style had been shown by fashion houses of Paris in 1880 in response to women …
.. working at their home sewing machines, buying undergarments and materials from catalogs, and copying the styles of the Queen of England at the beginning of the “3rd Bustle” or “Hard Bustle”, or “Horse Rear End” bustle era which signaled the start of the Late Victorian Era. (French 1870’s cartoon: …
After the Civil War, Americans were obsessed with science and technology – bringing the sewing machine to common use and new synthetic dyes along with exponentially increased improvements in the textile and garment production industries. World wide trade and the full access to the Asias had the Middle Victorian Era …
By the early 1860’s, under the innovations of Charles Worth, Eugenie’s designer and a whole variety of cultural and economic factors including Victoria’s desire to help her lower classes by manufacturing everythin in England, and Eugenie’s desire to have everything made in France – the crinoline hoop became huge. 1862-1865, …
The Victorian Era started officially in 1837 when Queen Victoria of England was crowned and took over as leader of world fashion, knocking the French off that pedestal. That Early Era that took the Regency Fashion concepts of 1800-1828 and made the skirts bigger, the corsets tighter, and the bodice …
.. and how the Mid-Victorian Fashion changed drastically between the early 1870’s and the early 1880’s, covering the 1st bustle era with its various shapes and drapes and structures, then no bustle (Natural Form), and now as the bustle reappears larger than ever. To figure out the date on a …
…Showtime series with Mrs. Eva on set.
…Gabriella Pescucci for “The Age of Innocence” gowns for Wynona Ryder. One can clearly define each year as the show progresses from 1878 into the 1880’s. The skirts and draping are the keys to date identification.
Buffalo Gals sure had fun participating this past August weekend in the Folk Festival in Thermopolis, Wyoming! We mixed it up with the locals to put on two days of back to back original storytelling, guests of the Big Horn Basin Guild. Many thanks to Shelly King, one of our …
