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  2. Victorian fashion - Wikipedia

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    The silhouette changed once again as the Victorian era drew to a close. The shape was essentially an inverted triangle, with a wide-brimmed hat on top, a full upper body with puffed sleeves, no bustle, and a skirt that narrowed at the ankles [11] (the hobble skirt was a fad shortly after the end of the Victorian era). The enormous wide-brimmed ...

  3. Lady's maid - Wikipedia

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    Illustration depicting a Parisian lady's maid in the 1630s. The illustration is made in the turn of the 18th-19th century, by Georges-Jacques Gatine (1773–1848) Mistress and Maid by Johannes Vermeer. A lady's maid is a female personal attendant who waits on her female employer. The role of a lady's maid is similar to that of a gentleman's ...

  4. 1870s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Bustles and elaborate drapery characterize gowns of the early 1870s. The gentleman wears evening dress. Detail of Too Early by James Tissot, 1873.. 1870s fashion in European and European-influenced clothing is characterized by a gradual return to a narrow silhouette after the full-skirted fashions of the 1850s and 1860s.

  5. Maid - Wikipedia

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    Illustration by William Thomas Smedley, 1906 La Toilette by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, c. 1890 – c. 1900 A maid cleaning in Denmark in 1912. A maid, housemaid, or maidservant is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era, domestic service was the second-largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. [1]

  6. 1650–1700 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Susanna Huygens wore a long, tight white satin bodice with paned sleeves lined in pink and a matching petticoat. Her hair is worn in a mass of tight curls, and she wears pearl eardrops and a pearl necklace, 1667–69.

  7. A Farewell to Marvin Traub: The Retail Genius Who ... - AOL

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    'I buy my maids uniforms there.' "Traub would change that image a decade later, starting with the launch of Bloomingdale's first country promotion in 1960, bringing a new look to the furniture ...

  8. Slop (clothing) - Wikipedia

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    The name "slop" was originally naval slang for the cheap ready-made clothing that a naval rating would purchase in lieu of an official uniform (which ratings in the British Royal Navy, at least, did not have until 1857) sometimes from a "slop chest" maintained on board ship by the purser.

  9. Nursemaid - Wikipedia

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    In the Victorian household, the children's quarters were referred to as the 'nursery', but the name of the responsible servant had largely evolved from 'nurse' to 'nanny'. The Nursery Maid was a general servant within the nursery, and although regularly in the presence of the children, would often have a less direct role in their care.

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