… surprise! Queen Victoria of England who dominated almost 60 years of fashion worldwide. Her exacting dictates regarding “costume” – every event had a specific fashion – led to white for weddings and black for mourning, which switched the previous rules.
Even to her end, she was fashionable, and demanded it of others. Here she is in the 1880’s with (left to right) 1st born daughter Victoria “Vicky”, last born daughter Beatrice, and granddaughter Irene.
We will be going in detail into the Victorians shortly.