… Edwardian. The 1860’s to 1880’s under the English Queen went from crinolines to bustles to no bustles to big bustles to gigantic sleeves and just kept going.
By the 1890’s, Victoria’s fashion dictates were being usurped by the new English King Edward’s ideas. Fashion exploded as it split into different lines of thought, so that by 1900, there were as many acceptable fashions as there were functions to wear them.
(Sketch: silhouettes mid-Victorian 1860’s to mid-Edwardian 1900)