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Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity.
These English ladies wear formal mantuas for tea. Empress Elisabeth Christine in riding costume. In the early decades of the new century, formal dress consisted of the stiff-bodiced mantua. A closed (or "round") petticoat, sometimes worn with an apron, replaced the open draped mantua skirt of the previous period. This formal style then gave way ...
During most of this period, the clothes worn by middle- and upper-class children older than toddlers continued to be similar to the clothes worn by adults, with the exception that girls wore back-fastening bodices and petticoats rather than open-fronted robes. Boys wore dresses until they were breeched.
The cumbersome outfit of the young daughter of a French bourgeois, 1778. Schools boys ca 1780. Miss Willoughby wears the loose, sashed white frock that is the English girl's equivalent of the fashionable lady's chemise dress, with a straw hat, 1781–83. Everyday clothes of young children in a middle-class family, 1781.
Boys often dressed similar to adult males, as they too wore blazers and Norfolk jackets. Much influence on the styles of children's dress came from artist Kate Greenaway, an illustrator of children's books. She strongly influenced styles of young girls' dress, as she often showed girls dressed in empire styles in her books.
1859 fashion plate of both men's and women's daywear, with seabathing in background. He wears the new leisure fashion, the sack coat.. 1850s fashion in Western and Western-influenced clothing is characterized by an increase in the width of women's skirts supported by crinolines or hoops, the mass production of sewing machines, and the beginnings of dress reform.
1880s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; 1880s Fashion; From Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art, Ohio State University : Olive wool tea gown, 1882; Bustle, corset and combination, 1884-1890; Navy wool tea gown c. 1889; What Victorians Wore: An Overview of ...
Fashion for children started to become more stylish and comfortable in the 1920s. Clothes were made out of cotton and wool rather than silk, lace, and velvet. Clothes were also made more sturdy in order to withstand play. During previous decades, many layers were worn; however, during the 1920s, minimal layers became the new standard. [29]