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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. 1400–1500 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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   Survey of historic costume: A history of Western dress (2nd ed.). New York: Fairchild Publications. ISBN 1-56367-003-8. Van Buren, Anne H. Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325–1515. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2011. ISBN 978-1-9048-3290-4

4. 1700–1750 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The costume of the eighteenth century, if lacking in the refinement and grace of earlier times, was distinctly quaint and picturesque. [1] Distinction was made in this period between full dress worn at court and for formal occasions, and undress or everyday, daytime clothes. As the decades progressed, fewer and fewer occasions called for full ...

5. 1750–1775 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The Brunswick dress was a two-piece costume of German origin consisting of a hip-length jacket with "split sleeves"—flounced elbow-length sleeves and long, tight lower sleeves—and a hood, worn with a matching petticoat. It was popular for traveling. Court dress, the grand habit de cour or "stiff-bodied" gown, retained the styles of the ...

6. 1860s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Even the clothes women would ride horses in received these sorts of embellishments. [5] Croquet players of 1864 loop their skirts up from floor-length over hooped petticoats. Small hats with ribbon streamers were very popular for young women in the mid-1860s. Day dresses featured wide pagoda sleeves worn over undersleeves or engageantes.

7. 1600–1650 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Henrietta Maria's riding costume consists of a jacket-bodice of blue satin with long tabbed skirts and a matching long petticoat. She wears a broad-brimmed hat with ostrich plumes, 1633. A Lady from Spanish court wears an elegant, black dress. Its simplicity is a testament to the austerity of the Spanish court; however, her high hair is quite ...