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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. Victorian dress reform - Wikipedia

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   Victorian dress reform was an objective of the Victorian dress reform movement (also known as the rational dress movement) of the middle and late Victorian era, led by various reformers who proposed, designed, and wore clothing considered more practical and comfortable than the fashions of the time.

4. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

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   Weldon's was the first major commercial pattern company in England, founded in 1879, and accompanied by a magazine to sell the patterns. [2] Weldon's later added a Canadian edition of Weldon's Ladies' Journal with patterns. Weldon's continued to produce patterns into the 1950s. [3] Simplicity Pattern Co. Inc. started producing patterns in 1927 ...

5. Simplicity Pattern - Wikipedia

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   The Simplicity Pattern Company is a manufacturer of sewing pattern guides, under the "Simplicity Pattern", "It's So Easy" and "New Look" brands. The company was founded in 1927 in New York City . During the Great Depression , Simplicity allowed home seamstresses to create fashionable clothing in a reliable manner.

6. Polonaise (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   Two women wearing the robe à la polonaise, literally meaning the Polish dress Jean-Michel Moreau, Le Rendez-vous pour Marly, engraved by Carl Guttenberg c. 1777.. The robe à la polonaise or polonaise, literally meaning the Polish dress, is a woman's garment of the 18th century 1770s and 1780s or a similar revival style of the 1870s inspired by Polish national dress style, costume, [1 ...

7. 1830s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The girls wear white dresses with colored aprons. The Family of Dr. Josef August Eltz, Austria, 1835. 1830s fashion in Western and Western-influenced fashion is characterized by an emphasis on breadth , initially at the shoulder and later in the hips, in contrast to the narrower silhouettes that had predominated between 1800 and 1820.