Last year we studied the French Kings and Queens of the Bourbon family with Marie Antoinette and their influence on American women’s fashion during the Revolutionary War era. Next we went many months about the French Revolution, Napoleon, his 2nd wife Josephine, and the whole Bonaparte ruling family and how …
3rd in the Theme division! It was one BIG parade! Here are a few views from our support crew. Big THANKS to the drivers Tony and Marshall, pull crew Joseph x 2 and Emmett, dressers Jenny and Diane, photographers Matt and Big Brother, tech Kiara… …Northern Gardens who loaned us …
… Today the “Buffalo Gals” competed in the 1st day of the Cody Wyoming Stampede Rodeo Independence Day parades. The theme is “Wyoming – Buckin’ Thru Time”. We were aiming to make a “Women’s Timeline”, with each ensemble representing an era. As a SPECIAL SURPRISE – the boys from the …
This is the infamous 1900 “FloraDora Sextette” who bared their legs and their bottoms on stages in 1900 of the finest theatres that only served rich men. Oddly, each and every one of them married millionaires. (Must have been the hats – NOT). Come see the Buffalo Gals in TWO …
.. was a look of demure, prim gentility. Hats of the 1820’s leading up to it were giant, stiff, and had a flirtatious air. When the 1835 bonnet was introduced, the look of fashion changed, and so gowns had to change too. Bonnets became lavishly trimmed, feminine, soft, and coy. …
… Silhouette, and so image and social presentation. The Reform movement in the Victorian era represented a small number of women, but its influence was significant later – as in today – when corsets disappeared. It only took them about 150 years to accomplish their goal of getting women into …
.. because by the 1880’s, women had been wearing corsets since they were 6 years old, and adult styles since they were 10. Their internal organs and lifestyle had been gradually adjusted for high fashion. It was the Reform corset that seemed odd and out of place at the time; …
… between Reform fashion and Victorian high fashion. (Extant 1900 corsets: left Reform; right High fashion)
Although women over the 1837-1901 period made HUGE gains, each country was slow in progress towards women’s right to vote, elimination of slavery, marriage and ownership laws, and equality in the work place. Under Queen Victoria, England was the first among Europeans (Scandanavians), and Americans to abolish slavery, give the …
… as we discussed in detail earlier this summer. There were those of rich and noble blood, and then there were poor. BUT, as was happening in America, there was a rising middle class made of merchants, industrialists, and financiers. They walked among the previously “taboo” royal or noble elite …
