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Princess-line walking dress (left) and hunting costume (right) from La Mode Illustrée, 1880. Summer dresses of 1882 show Aesthetic influence in the small-scale floral prints. The straw hat frames the fashionable frizzled hair. Front and back views of a traveling coat, c. 1880–81
1880s dress style. A Victorian dandy pictured in the 1840s 1885 bustle. The early 1880s was a period of stylistic confusion. [1] On one hand, there is the over ...
Woman wearing a dress with a bustle, US, about mid-1880s. The bustle reappeared in late 1881, [14] and was exaggerated to become a major fashion feature in the mid and late 1880s, in 1885 reaching preposterous proportions to modern eyes, as used in the play Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. The fashion for large bustles ended in 1889. [15]
Pages in category "1880s fashion" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... Wedding dress of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom;
In the 1880s the artist Kate Greenaway illustrated popular books of English nursery rhymes showing children in smock dresses. These came to be a popular style of children's dress which were given the name 'Mother Hubbard' by fashion writers at the time after the nursery rhyme character in the books. [1]
The Gallery of Costume in Manchester holds a more typical Dolly Varden dress in its collections, made of white linen with a pink and mauve flowered print. [3] A Dolly Varden hat, as it relates to the dress, is usually understood to mean a flat straw hat trimmed with flowers and ribbons, very like the 18th-century bergère hat.
Charles Frederick Worth's dresses were known for their lavish fabrics and trimmings and for incorporating elements from period dress. He created unique pieces for his most important customers, but also prepared a variety of designs, showcased by live models, that could then be tailored to the client's requirements in his workshop. [ 6 ]
Wilde wrote about aesthetic dress movement in his recently rediscovered treatise The Philosophy of Dress. Aesthetic dress of the 1880s and 1890s carries on many of the external characteristics of Artistic dress (rejection of tightlacing in favour of simplicity of line and emphasis on beautiful fabrics), even though, at its core, Aestheticism ...