1800s Fashion
1800’s Brief history of fashion in pictures. Women’s and men’s wear, headdresses and hairstyles, underwear, kids wear and shoes
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Easter bonnet
An Easter bonnet is a new or fancy hat (headgear) traditionally worn at Easter. In many countries there was a custom to wear new clothes for Easter.
1840 – 1849 Hairstyles
We have a new post on Patreon about “Headdresses and Hairstyles”. Part 5: 1840 – 1849. www.patreon.com/posts/64661799 Year by year. Each page is one year.
Sailor suit
Sailor suit or Sailor dress is a style in children’s and women’s clothing with special details inspired by sailors. The sailor suit came into children’s fashion in 1846, when the son of the British Queen Victoria was given a “little sailor”
Bliaud
The bliaut (also spelled bliaud) is an overdress worn in the Middle Ages. It had various design variations, but its main characteristic was a long gown with very long, fitted sleeves that widened dramatically at the cuffs.
Suffragette
March 8 – International Women’s Day. It is based on suffragism, emancipation and various types of women’s struggle for rights. Under the name Suffragettes, we will bring together different types of women’s rights activists, although this applies to a greater extent to the history of the United States.