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Category: Fashion History Blog 1
Stays become corsets…
As the Regency era at the turn of the 18th into the 19th century (early 1800’s) was the first time in history fashion basically removed all understructure, there were experiments with materials and methods and techniques aimed to produce the perfect Grecian ideal form. There was a long, knitted corset …
The new bustle dress of the early 1880’s…
.. with its very fitted bodice had a Princess line meaning it was cut in long panels from top to bottom. The front overall was much flatter because of the panels. What drapery there was, went to the front and hung like a tidy apron. (Photo: extant early 1880’s cuirasse …
The new Bustle Era of 1883…
… 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 …