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2. 'It has pockets!!!' The joy — and tyranny — of women's desire ...

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   “Women’s pockets were even bigger in the 1700s, when wide-hoop petticoats concealed detachable pockets,” fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, author of the book Skirts, tells Yahoo ...

3. Spencer (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   It was also soon adopted as a popular women's fashion on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1790–1820 Regency style period [2] [3] [4] The spencer was worn as a cardigan, or as a short, fitted jacket cut to just above waist level, or, in Empire style, to the bust line, and tailored on identical lines to the dress.

4. Victorian fashion - Wikipedia

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   Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly from the 1830s through the 1890s. The period saw many changes in fashion, including changes in styles, fashion technology and the methods of distribution.

5. 1870s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Victorian Women's fashion: 1870s; Victorian Women's Fashion, 1850–1900: Hairstyles; 1870s Men's Fashions – c. 1870 Men's Fashion Photos with Annotations; From Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art, Ohio State University : Reda silk brocade tea gown, c. 1876; Brown challis tean gown in Liberty of London fabric, c. 1877 ...

6. 50 Posts From The Victorian Era That Prove It Really Was A ...

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   Victorian Women Managing A Hard Route, 1890s. Image credits: Electrical-Aspect-13 #8 Estudio Photo Of A Woman In The Late 1890s. Maybe Early 1900s ... and mass production made clothes, souvenirs ...

7. Reticule (handbag) - Wikipedia

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   Previously, women had carried personal belongings in pockets tied around the waist, but the columnar skirts and thin fabrics that had come into style made pockets essentially unusable. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ further explanation needed ] When the reticule first appeared, it was made of netting .

8. 1795–1820 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   For such reasons, some Victorian history paintings of the Napoleonic wars intentionally avoided depicting accurate women's styles (see example below), Thackeray's illustrations to his book Vanity Fair depicted the women of the 1810s wearing 1840s fashions, and in Charlotte Brontë's 1849 novel Shirley (set in 1811–1812) neo-Grecian fashions ...

9. Trousers as women's clothing - Wikipedia

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   In more modern clothing, while men's clothes generally have pockets, women's often do not – and sometimes have what are called Potemkin pockets, a fake slit sewn shut. [100] In 1954, French fashion designer Christian Dior allegedly stated: 'Men have pockets to keep things in, women for decoration.' [ 99 ] If there are pockets, they are often ...