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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. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

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    Demorest Paper Patterns were also advertised in other women's magazines at the time. [2] By the 20th century, sewing patterns were marketed for home dressmakers as well as professionals, and available in magazines, catalogs, and in shops. The commercial paper pattern industry had begun to be a major influence in the clothing industry. [2]

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Artistic Dress - Wikipedia

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    Artistic Dress was a fashion movement in the second half of the nineteenth century that rejected highly structured and heavily trimmed Victorian trends in favour of beautiful materials and simplicity of design. It arguably developed in Britain in the early 1850s, influenced by artistic circles such as the Pre-Raphaelites, and Dress Reform ...

  7. Ebenezer Butterick - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, women's patterns would be offered in 13 sizes for dresses, coats and blouses, and five sizes for skirts. The Delineator, August 1894 cover. In 1867 Butterick began publishing a magazine to promote their patterns, the Ladies Quarterly of Broadway Fashions, which was followed, in 1868, with the monthly Metropolitan. Both magazines ...

  8. Mother Hubbard dress - Wikipedia

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    In Papua New Guinea, the form of dress is known as meri blaus, which in Tok Pisin means women's blouse. It is considered formal local attire. It is considered formal local attire. In the 1960s and 1970s many women in Tarawa, Kiribati and a few i-matang women wore a garment which was referred to as a Mother Hubbard.

  9. 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.

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