… become so enamored with the American spirit, the casual and less structured lifestyle of Americans, and particularly the romantic American West, that the English and Europeans would start to “peek” at American women to set the fashion trends.
Stories of Daniel Boone at the turn of the 18th into 19th centuries had awakened the curiosity of the English in particular, and in about 1900, with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show coming to England to show first hand what those legends were talking about, the influence would switch.
In 1837, however, it was Victoria who was running the worldwide fashion show.
(Poster: Annie Oakley was always in the height of fashion (in her Victorian corset); here seen on an approximate 1898 poster advertising Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show which would perform in England that year)