American Victorian Costume in Early Photographs

Author: Priscilla Harris Dalrymple
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319709
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Over 280 rare photographs document "Sunday best" clothing from the 1840s to the 1890s. Bustles, pantalets, top hats, waistcoats, bowlers, other attire, as well as hairdressing and tonsorial styles.

Victorian Fashions

Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486402215
Category : Design
Languages : ja
Pages : 132

Book Description
Panoramic display of evolving styles ranges from hoop-skirted gowns of the mid-1800s to turn-of-the-century fashions that produced diminished bustles and close-fitting skirts. "A superb resource." — History in Review.

Victorian Fashion in America

Author: Kristina Harris
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486418148
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
After the three page introduction, the work is mainly photographs with short captions.

Victorian Fashion in America

Author: Kristina Harris
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486137899
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
Vintage photographs depict girls playing dress-up in their mothers' clothes, a boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and scores of other representative portraits. Captions.

Victorian and Edwardian Fashion

Author: Alison Gernsheim
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048631913X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Bonnets, capes, caps, shawls, bodices, and crinolines as people actually wore them from 1840 to 1914. More than 200 photos depict aristocrats and members of the middle class as well as celebrities.

Victorian Fashions for Women and Children

Author: Linda Setnik
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764341649
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Victorian era was a time of high morals, cultured manners, and ultra feminine, luxurious apparel. While beautiful to gaze upon, elaborate ensembles were hot, heavy, restrictive, and constricting to the point of discomfort or even injury and disease. Revealed here are the childrens and womens clothing, including undergarments, leisurewear, and street apparel from 1860 to 1900. Over 270 photographs provide detailed images of Victorian garments, along with irrefutable evidence of our stalwart ancestors burdensome apparel. Nineteenth century photographs are supplemented by surviving examples of period clothing, many picturing both the outside and inner construction. This well-researched book not only describes the styles and the differences between these womens and childrens fashions, but also explores the reasons women were willing to become such devoted slaves to dress and the health hazards associated with their apparel. The text is based on Victorian fashion, medical, etiquette, and advice literature.

Petticoats and Frock Coats

Author: Cynthia Overbeck Bix
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0761380531
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
What would you have worn if you lived during the American Revolution or the early 1800s? It depends on who you were! Women wore layers and layers of undergarments, including corsets, chemises, and petticoats, and they accessorized with gloves, hats, parasols, and fans. Men also flaunted plenty of accessories, including neckties, top hats, walking sticks, and pocket watches. Read more about Revolutionary and early 1800s fashions—from pantaloons to silk stockings to tricornered hats—in this fascinating book!

With Grace & Favour

Author: Otto Charles Thieme
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description

Victorian Costume for Ladies, 1860-1900

Author: Linda Setnik
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764339721
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This revised edition is updated with nearly 30 vintage images, as well as new chapters on personal hygiene, cosmetics, clothing manufacture, laundry, and the dating of vintage photographs, along with updated prices. -- Publisher's blurb.

Victorian Fashion Accessories

Author: Ariel Beaujot
Publisher: Berg
ISBN: 0857853198
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress. Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian Fashion Accessories explores how women's use of gloves, parasols, fans and vanity sets revealed their class, gender and colonial aspirations. The colour and fit of a pair of gloves could help a middle-class woman indicate her class aspirations.The sun filtering through a rose-colored parasol would provide a woman of a certain age with the glow of youth. The use of a fan was a socially acceptable means of attracting interest and flirting.Even the choice of vanity set on a woman's bedroom dresser reflected her complicity with colonial expansion. By paying attention to the particular details of women's accessories we discover the beliefs embedded in these artefacts and enhance our understanding of the culture at large. Beaujot's engaging prose illuminates the complex identities of the women who used accessories in the Victorian culture that created and consumed them. Victorian Fashion Accessories is essential reading for students and scholars of, history, gender studies, cultural studies, material culture and fashion studies, as well as anyone interested in the history of dress.