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	Victorian Era 1837-1901 Victorian Fashion History, Costume Social History.
		Fashion innovations, the cage crinoline and coal tar aniline dyes.
		The fashion silhouettes of 1860-1880, 1867-1875, 1878-1901 from crinoline to various bustle forms.
		Victorian Pictures of Victorian Mantelets and More Victorian Mantelets 1852 have been improved in the section with line drawings and added text, but the original pages will remain here for a short time.
	www.fashion-era.com /the_victorian_era.htm (581 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Victorian fashion
		The term "Victorian fashion" refers to fashion in clothing in the Victorian era, or the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).
		If we carefully restrict our language, however, and take Victorian fashion to refer to the dress, or in a wider sense, the culture of an upper-middle-class London family of fashion and conventional attitudes, and describe it as it varied from decade to decade, we may be able to usefully describe these phenomena.
		Men's fashionable clothing was perhaps the least volatile, but there was still an enormous difference between the wasp waist and frock coats of the 1830s dandy and the sober suits and Norfolk jackets of 1901.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Victorian_fashion (1309 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Victorian era
		The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire.
		Although commonly used to refer to the period of Queen Victoria's rule between 1837 and 1901, scholars debate whether the Victorian period—as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political concerns that have come to be associated with the Victorians—actually begins with the passage of the Reform Act 1832.
		While women were not enfranchised during the Victorian period, they did gain the legal right to their property upon marriage through the Married Women's Property Act, the right to divorce, and the right to fight for custody of their children upon separation.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Victorian_Age (2599 words)

	Victorian fashion: Encyclopedia - Victorian fashion
		Women's fashionable clothing started with a straight, Regency silhouette, bloomed into exaggerated skirts and sleeves, moved to small shoulders and even wider skirts supported by crinolines (that had many dangers) and hoops, and narrowed by way of the bustle to hobble skirts.
		Charles Frederick Worth, the "father of haute couture" and the prototype of the fashion designer as the dictator of modes, was a London draper who relocated to Paris in the 1840s.
		Men's fashionable clothing was perhaps the least volatile, but there was still an enormous difference between the wasp waist and frock coats of the 1830s dandy and the sober sack suits and Norfolk jackets of 1901.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Victorian_fashion/id/1993398 (1631 words)

	Fashion - MSN Encarta
		In the 1780s fashionable women in England and France began to wear simpler dresses that differed significantly from the stiff and highly decorated dresses of the mid-1700s.
		Fashion historians have called this change “the great masculine renunciation.” The reasons for this change are complicated, but two primary causes can be identified.
		Another reason for the change in men’s fashions was the growing economic and cultural influence of England.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761585452_2/Fashion.html (1724 words)

	Search: 19th Century Victorian Fashion
		Victorian Fashion History, Costume and Social History of the Victorian Era 1837-1901.
		The term "Victorian fashion" refers to fashion in clothing in the Victorian era, or the reign of Queen...
		A satire on the evolution of 19th-century fashion...
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	Victorian Clothes on AboutBritain.com
		Victorian clothes were very much a symbol of who you were, what you did for a living, and how much money was in your bank account.
		Victorian fashion did include eyeglasses, But, they were strictly for looks and not for the correction of vision.
		To wear Victorian dress, it was necessary to have a cinched-in waist.
	www.aboutbritain.com /articles/victorian-clothes.asp (876 words)

	Morbid Outlook - Victorian Mourning Garb
		Victorian mourning fashion was aimed mainly at women, widows in particular.
		Most of the fabrics associated with Victorian life are no longer in use today, partially due to the invention of modern synthetic fabrics, but also because many Victorian fabrics are too expensive to manufacture today.
		Fashion changed and women were no longer so rigidly dictated to by the strict Victorian code of etiquette.
	www.morbidoutlook.com /fashion/historical/2001_03_victorianmourn.html (2174 words)

	victorian fashion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The term "Victorian fashion" can be used to refer to frilly, lacy, flowing clothing from the British Victorian era.
		Victorian era fashion innovations, the cage crinoline and coal tar aniline dyes 1856.
		A repository of fashion and costume history info from the Middle Ages to the 1930s: original pictures and patterns, an extensive how-to section and specials.
	www.fashion-megasite.com /articles/48/victorian-fashion.html (390 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Women's fashionable clothing began with a straight, Regency silhouette, bloomed into exaggerated skirts and sleeves, moved to small shoulders and even wider skirts supported by crinolines or hoops, and narrowed by way of the bustle to hobble skirts.
		His success led to the dominance of Paris fashion houses as arbiters of style and the preferred clothiers for upper-class women in both Britain and America.
		Another example of Victorian fashion being incorporated into a contemporary style is the Gothic Lolita culture.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Victorian_fashion (1487 words)

	Victorian fashion 1
		Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harpers' Bazzar 1867-1898 Stella Blume ed.
		Victorian Cowgirl, shopping for designer clothing and custom fashions, Victorian and western clothing in sedona arizona, with designer Candice Walters.
		The Victorian Fashion Competition itself, with the thirty contestants chosen, will be held at 3:00...
	www.makeupfashionfordating.com /fashion/fashion061.html (179 words)

	victorian : All Items on Ruby Lane
		From out of an estate, this is a set of FOUR of these sweet Victorian plates that measure 8 1/2" and have a raised design around the border and a transfer design in the middle with flowers in shades of purple, green, orange and yellow on a white...
		This is a vintage pincushion that was made from a piece of an antique Victorian wool paisley shawl on the top and soft gold velvet on the bottom.
		This is a delightful little statuette of an early Victorian period boy seated on the floor and playing with some soldiers.
	www.rubylane.com /search?ss=victorian (1680 words)

	Victorian fashion Summary
		The term "Victorian fashion" refers to fashion in clothing in the Victorian era, or the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).
		Women's fashionable clothing started with a straight, Regency silhouette, bloomed into exaggerated skirts and sleeves, moved to small shoulders and even wider skirts supported by crinolines or hoops, and narrowed by way of the bustle to hobble skirts.
		Men's fashionable clothing was perhaps the least volatile, but there was still an enormous difference between the wasp waist and frock coats of the 1830s dandy and the sober sack suits and Norfolk jackets of 1901.
	www.bookrags.com /Victorian_fashion (2116 words)

	Harking Back to Victorian Times \| Fashion \| Trends in Japan \| Web Japan
		Victorian-inspired fashions trimmed with lace and frills are all the rage this fall and winter as Japanese women look to achieve a classic, feminine look.
		Inspired by the distinctive fashions that took root in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria in the late nineteenth century, the new Victorian style is characterized by corset-cinched waistlines, high-necked frilly blouses with lavishly ornamented sleeves, and voluminous long skirts.
		Victorian fashion is just the latest example of classic fashions being adapted and updated for the modern age by discerning Japanese women.
	web-jpn.org /trends/fashion/fas051109.html (554 words)

	Curvaceous - Victoria and Albert Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Iku’s inspiration came from the Victorian corset and the concepts of restriction and transformation.
		The silhouette of the jacket incorporates elements of Victorian fashion : a puffed shoulder and a curving back-sweep which evokes the shape of a bustle.
		But the dynamic and jaunty element of her design is opposed to the staid and constrictive nature of Victorian body-shaping garments.
	www.vam.ac.uk /collections/fashion/fashion_motion/curvaceous/index.html (807 words)

	Victorian Fashions in the Upper Ottawa Valley
		On September 22, 1998, and again on April 20,1999, the Ottawa Valley Historical Society presented “Victorian Fashion Show: 100 Years of Fashion from 1840-1940,” drawing on the collection of the Champlain Trail Museum.
		The commentary has been augmented with photographs detailing some of the fashions that were presented.
		It will be obvious that these fashions belonged to members of the wealthy class, and photographs and quotations present some of that social milieu.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /CommunityMemories/ACVO/000a/Exhibits/English (201 words)

	Harking Back to Victorian Times \| Fashion \| Trends in Japan \| Web Japan
		Victorian-inspired fashions trimmed with lace and frills are all the rage this fall and winter as Japanese women look to achieve a classic, feminine look.
		Inspired by the distinctive fashions that took root in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria in the late nineteenth century, the new Victorian style is characterized by corset-cinched waistlines, high-necked frilly blouses with lavishly ornamented sleeves, and voluminous long skirts.
		Victorian fashion is just the latest example of classic fashions being adapted and updated for the modern age by discerning Japanese women.
	web-japan.org /trends/fashion/fas051109.html (554 words)

	Victorian Elegance Antique Show Promotions
		Victorian Elegance Antique Show offers over 100 quality vendors from around the country with Victorian to Art Deco cherry and walnut furniture, quality linens and lace, handmade quilts, cut glass, china, silver, Civil War memorabilia, Victorian scrap, dolls, antique photos, books, vintage clothing and jewelry.
		Victorian Elegance Antique Show, founded in 1993 by Marilyn Mitchell, is the first show of its kind in the Southwest to focus strictly on the Victotrian era including workshops and entertainment for the whole family.
		With the theme of "Victorian Extravaganza of Fashion", Steve Porterfield thrilled this year's attendees by a vast selection of spectacular outfits with accessories to match from evening bags to jewelry and fans.
	www.victorianshow.com /past.htm (516 words)

	All Dress Form Edwardian Parisian Hairdo Coiffure Hats Fashion Plates
		These lovely fashion plates have been reproduced as fine art prints and are ideal for grouping as a wall arrangement for interiors.
		Collecting fashion plates, original or reproduced, is an enchanting plus side to the study of fashion and costume history.
		For the collector who is interested in a particular fashion era and mode of dress and wants to enhance their decor with fashion plates, we offer great reproductions of fashion plates.
	www.alldressforms.com /fashion-plates-historical-art-hairdo-coiffure-fashion-art-prints-11665-to-11668.html (365 words)

	Historic Harmony Victorian Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Although the rich Victorian decoration necessitates a variety of pieces, the instructions, captions and large exploded diagrams provide easy-to-follow directions showing exactly what to cut, fold, glue, how to assemble steps, roofs, walls, etc. Two full-color photos of all four houses grouped together appear on the covers.
		Here is an easily affordable glimpse into the Victorian world of high fashion that's sure to delight paper doll collectors, designers, fashion historians, nostalgia buffs and lover of Victoriana.
		The focus of this handsome photographic study is sawn-wood ornamentation—the "gingerbread" of Victorian houses.
	www.harmonymuseumgiftshop.org /hmgsvictorianbooks.htm (530 words)

	The Spectacular Female Body: Dress, Fashion and Modernity in Victorian Women's Magazines
		Notwithstanding the controversy about tight-lacing, the corset could be seen as an essential fashion item which gave a particular shape and enhanced the waist; or, it could be seen as an apparatus which imprisoned and restricted movement.
		According to followers of fashion, the dress reformers sought to make women manly, and it was against this charge that the reformers had to fight.
		The Victorian dress-reform movement gathered momentum with the formation of the Rational Dress Society by Lady Harberton, a prominent feminist, and Emily King in 1881.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701733/session2.html (714 words)

	§5. "Idylls of the King". II. The Tennysons. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of ...
		The over-exquisite elaboration of form is in keeping with Tennyson’s whole treatment of the old legends, rich in a colour and atmosphere of their own.
		With the spirit of the Arthurian stories, in which elements of a Celtic, primitive world are blended in a complex, now hardly to be disentangled, fashion with medieval chivalry and catholic, sacramental symbolism, the Victorian poet was out of sympathy.
		As the former, when she speaks, is not a young English girl, but the personification of chastity, so Arthur is, as in Spenser’s poem, the embodiment of complete virtue conceived in a Victorian fashion, with a little too much in him of the “endless clergyman,” which Tennyson said was the Englishman’s idea of God.
	www.bartleby.com /223/0205.html (1172 words)

	\| 19th Century Fashion \|
		These are color plates depicting styles of ladies dresses from the middle of the 19th century.
		To the left another color plate of a fashion made to advertise for women's latest fashions.
		Buster Brown suits were worn between the ages of 5 and 8 and sometimes at older ages.
	www.angelfire.com /ar3/townevictorian/victorianfashion.html (970 words)

	Victorian Historian
		In the mid-Victorian period, beginning in the 1860's, there was a retailing phenomenon in fashion history known, in the gentler language of that time, as The Ladies Mile in New York City.
		When skies were blue and days were sunny observers could enjoy the broad white vistas of gleaming facades, ornately sculptured buildings adorned with striped awnings which shaded the elaborate display windows, offering a most spectacular sight.
		Ladies promenaded in their finest attire until the end of the nineteenth century when department stores were among the most beautiful buildings of the Victorian period.
	victorianhistorian.com /fashionhistory.html (458 words)

	Excite Deutschland - Recreation - Living History - By Topic - Costumes - Period - 19th Century
		Escape is a drink containing a special blend that regulates changes in mood, appetite and the ability to concentrate during the premenstrual period.
		Shawls of Paisley design were in fashion for nearly 100 years, from 1790-1870.
		Discusses fashions in the period from 1825 to 1840.
	www.excite.de /directory/Recreation/Living_History/By_Topic/Costumes/Period/19th_Century (301 words)

	Victorian Fashion in America; 264 Vintage Photographs:Edited by Kristina Harris:0486418146:eCampus.com
		Victorian Fashion in America; 264 Vintage Photographs:Edited by Kristina Harris:0486418146:eCampus.com
		Fashions of the Thirties; 476 Authentic Copyright-Free Illustrations
		French Fashion Illustrations of the Twenties; 634 Cuts from La Vie Parisienne
	www.ecampus.com /book/0486418146 (103 words)

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