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2. 1880s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Fashions from La Mode Illustrée show dresses made of contrasting fabrics worn with "shelf" bustles and opera-length gloves, 1887. Princess Alix of Hesse wears a high-necked day dress, 1887. Fashions of 1888 feature full busts, large "shelf" bustles, and wide shoulders. Gloves reach the elbow or slightly above.

3. 1795–1820 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   For women's dress, the day-to-day outfit of the skirt and jacket style were practical and tactful, recalling the working-class woman. [3] Women's fashions followed classical ideals, and stiffly boned stays were abandoned in favor of softer, less boned corsets. [4] This natural figure was emphasized by being able to see the body beneath the ...

4. 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 ...

5. History of cleavage - Wikipedia

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   By that time, Cretan women in Knossos were wearing ornamental fitted bodices with open cleavage, sometimes with a peplum. [6] Another set of Minoan figurines from 1500 BC show women in bare-bosomed corsets. [7] [8] Ancient Greek women adorned their cleavage with a long pendant necklace called a kathema. [9]

6. 1860s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Vienna fashion plate, showing male and female attire. Carte de visite of Sara Forbes Bonetta, in a dark silk dress. Artistic dress has romantic, vaguely medieval lines with a slight train, and is worn without a corset or hoops. This young girl wears her hair down. 1862.

7. 1920s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The fashion for women was all about letting loose. Women wore dresses all day, every day. Day dresses had a drop waist, which was a belt around the low waist or hip and a skirt that hung anywhere from the ankle on up to the knee, never above. Daywear had sleeves (long to mid-bicep) and a skirt that was straight, pleated, hank hem, or tiered.