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2. Victorian fashion - Wikipedia

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   1837 dress. During the start of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, the ideal shape of the Victorian woman was a long slim torso emphasised by wide hips. To achieve a low and slim waist, corsets were tightly laced and extended over the abdomen and down towards the hips. [4]

3. Wedding dress of Queen Victoria - Wikipedia

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   Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 10 February 1840. She chose to wear a white wedding dress made from heavy silk satin, making her one of the first women to wear white for their wedding. [1][2] The Honiton lace used for her wedding dress proved an important boost to Devon lace-making. [3][4 ...

4. Quinceañera - Wikipedia

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   Quinceañera. A quinceañera (also fiesta de quinceañera, quince años, fiesta de quince años, quinceañero and quinces) is a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday that is common in Mexican and other Latin American cultures. [1] The girl celebrating her 15th birthday is a quinceañera (Spanish pronunciation: [kinseaˈɲeɾa]; feminine form of ...

5. Wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert - Wikipedia

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   The slippers she wore matched the white colour of the dress. The train of the dress, carried by her bridesmaids, measured 18 feet (5.5 m) long. Queen Victoria described her choice of dress in her journal thus: "I wore a white satin dress, with a deep flounce of Honiton lace, an imitation of an old design.

6. Women in the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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   Victorian women's clothing followed trends that emphasised elaborate dresses, skirts with wide volume created by the use of layered material such as crinolines, hoop skirt frames, and heavy fabrics. Because of the impracticality and health impact of the era's fashions, a dress reform movement began among women.

7. Elizabeth Johnston (dressmaker) - Wikipedia

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   Elizabeth Johnston was a 19th-century fashionable British dressmaker and fashion merchant.She was the official royal dressmaker of Queen Adelaide and Queen Victoria.. She was married to Alexander Johnston, who managed A. Johnston, a ‘Millinery, Dress, and Moravian Work Baby Linen Establishment’ in the New Town of Edinburgh in 1822.