Victorian & Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic SurveyA noted photohistorian documents bonnets, capes, frock coats, caps, shawls, bodices, and crinolines as people actually wore them from 1840 through 1914. More than 200 photos depict aristocrats and the middle class as well as Oscar Wilde,ÿLillie Langtry, Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria, and others. Commentary and annotationsÿdescribe and identify the costumes. |
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artificial ball dresses beard boater bodice bonnet boots brim bustle buttoned Calotype chignon clothes collar colours corset costume crinoline curls curves Daguerreotype dark David Octavius Hill decoration ditto draped drapery dress trimmed Duchess edition Edwardian Edwardian period Empress Empress Eugénie engageantes English fashion feathers fifties figure five flannel flat flounces flowers forties fringe frock coat front G. W. Wilson garment girls gloves gowns hair hats Haweis hobble skirt ibid illustrated influence knickerbockers lace lady Lady’s London lounge jacket lounge suit Mary material Max von Boehn Miss modern morning coat muff narrow Nineteenth Century Oscar Wilde Paris period petticoat photographs plain pleats Prince Princess of Wales Queen Victoria rational dress Roger Fenton round satin shawl shoes short silk dress striped style summer sunshade tailor-made suit train trousers tunic velvet vertical waist waistcoat walking dress wear wearer wide woman women wore worn young