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  2. Victorian fashion - Wikipedia

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    Picture of 1850s evening dress with a bertha neckline. Neck-line: Bertha is the low shoulder neck-line worn by women during the Victorian Era. The cut exposed a woman's shoulders and it sometimes was trimmed over with a three to six-inch deep lace flounce, or the bodice has neckline draped with several horizontal bands of fabric pleats.

  3. 1500–1550 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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    Anne's gown is open at the front to reveal a figured silk kirtle beneath. The gowns have wide sleeves with turned-back cuffs lined in fur, 1508. Anne Stafford wears a black fur-lined gown with turned-back sleeves over a dark kirtle [13] She wears a soft sash at her waist and a sheer partlet over a square-necked chemise, c. 1535.

  4. 1870s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Semi-sheer dresses of c. 1877 show back fullness beginning at hip-level rather than the waist as in 1874–75. The tight, princess-line dress on the right fits smoothly to the body from the shoulders to the lower hips. Gown of 1878 has a long train and a squared neckline. It is worn with opera-length gloves.

  5. 19th century in fashion - Wikipedia

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    For most of the 19th century babies wore 'long, white dresses with short sleeves' [33] whilst toddlers and young children wore 'short dresses with frilled drawers peeking out underneath'. [ 33 ] As children grew into young adults the dress styles mimicked that of the elder generation, with the only difference being more simplistic styles and ...

  6. 1860s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    The most formal evening dress remained a dark tail coat and trousers, with a white cravat; this costume was well on its way to crystallizing into the modern "white tie and tails." While during the first half of the decade the waist was long, after 1865 the waist became shorter, with pockets in the pleats. [12]

  7. 1920s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    These afternoon or "tea gowns" were less form-fitting than evening dresses, featured long, flowing sleeves, and were adorned with sashes, bows, or artificial flowers at the waist. For evening wear the term "cocktail dress" was invented in France for American clientele. With the "New Woman" also came the "Drinking Woman".

  8. 1890s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Standing woman in a white dress with leg o'mutton sleeves. By René Schützenberger, 1895.. Fashionable women's clothing styles shed some of the extravagances of previous decades (so that skirts were neither crinolined as in the 1850s, nor protrudingly bustled in back as in the late 1860s and mid-1880s, nor tight as in the late 1870s), but corseting continued unmitigated, or even slightly ...

  9. High-low skirt - Wikipedia

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    Evening dresses designed by Racine, showcasing lace high-low-skirts. Art-Goût-Beauté, 1929. The high-low skirt has a full circle hem. However, the length varies from short in front to long in back. The style originates in Victorian era dresses and formal gowns, when the hem style became known as the "fishtail".

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