.. would disappear as the 1880’s progressed. (Photos: extant 1883 with front drapes (left) vs the new smooth line of 1885-86 (right))
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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 gigantic bustle of 1883…
.. 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 …
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 …
That takes us to 1883 America, where we find 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: …
Late Mid-Victorian (Gilded Age, Reconstruction) review..
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 …
And Mid-Victorian quick review..
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, …
Quick Review of Victorian fashion…
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 …
Back to work now.. we have been discussing Natural Form..
.. 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 …