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  2. 19th century in fashion - Wikipedia

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    The technology, art, politics, and culture of the 19th century were strongly reflected in the styles and silhouettes of the era's clothing. For women, fashion was an extravagant and extroverted display of the female silhouette with corset pinched waistlines, bustling full-skirts that flowed in and out of trend and decoratively embellished gowns ...

  3. Evening gown - Wikipedia

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    The 19th century distinguished between relatively high-necked dinner gowns for formal dinners and soirees, evening gowns for dances and theatre events, and ball gowns for the most formal affairs including balls and the opera. [2] Lavender evening gown by Irish designer Sybil Connolly from c. 1970

  4. Tea gown - Wikipedia

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    Tea gowns were intended to be worn without a corset or assistance from the maid; however, elegance always came first. [4] During the 19th century, it was not appropriate for women to be seen in public wearing a tea gown. [4] They were intended to be worn indoors with family and close friends during a dinner party. [4] [5]

  5. Victorian fashion - Wikipedia

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    Later Queen Victoria also appointed Charles Frederick Worth as her dress maker and he became a prominent designer amongst the European upper class. Charles Frederick Worth is known as the father of the haute couture as later the concept of labels were also invented in the late 19th century as custom, made to fit tailoring became mainstream. [25]

  6. 1795–1820 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    These 1795–1820 fashions were quite different from the styles prevalent during most of the 18th century and the rest of the 19th century when women's clothes were generally tight against the torso from the natural waist upwards, and heavily full-skirted below (often inflated by means of hoop skirts, crinolines, panniers, bustles, etc.). Women ...

  7. 1650–1700 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Gordenker, Emilie E.S.: Van Dyck and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture, Brepols, 2001, ISBN 978-2-503-50880-1; Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS

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