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2. Artistic Dress - Wikipedia

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   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 rejected the moral and social goals of the Victorian dress reform that was its precursor.

3. 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]

4. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

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   DuBarry patterns were manufactured by Simplicity from 1931 to 1946 exclusively for F. W. Woolworth Company. Vogue Pattern Service began in 1899, a spinoff of Vogue Magazine ' s weekly pattern feature. In 1909 Condé Nast bought Vogue. As a result, Vogue Pattern Company was formed in 1914, and in 1916 Vogue patterns were sold in department stores.

5. Victorian dress reform - Wikipedia

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   Amelia Bloomer herself dropped the fashion in 1859, saying that a new invention, the crinoline, was a sufficient reform and that she could return to conventional dress. The bloomer costume died—temporarily. It was to return much later (in a different form), as a women's athletic costume in the 1890s and early 1900s.

6. Janet Arnold - Wikipedia

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   Janet Arnold (6 October 1932 – 2 November 1998) was a British clothing historian, costume designer, teacher, conservator, and author.She is best known for her series of works called Patterns of Fashion, which included accurate scale sewing patterns, used by museums and theatres alike.

7. A Closer Look at the Victorian-era Costumes in ‘The Essex ...

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   Costume designer Jane Petrie took a multifaceted approach to creating the costumes for Apple TV+’s Victorian-era drama “The Essex Serpent” — both referencing the period broadly and using ...