C.1860 -1862. It was considered a faux pas for the ridges of your hoops to show through your skirt. to fix this, women wore full petticoats, as wide as their outer skirts, to go over the crinoline, to soften the edges of the hoops so they wouldn't show through.

`

`

French beaded satin ball gown, c.1880, from the Vintage Textile archives.

Corset - for summertime wear. It is basically vertical boning, and horizontal tapes. 1860's?

1860-1861 Dress at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1865, orange and white stripes

British silk round gown, ca. 1800. Very interesting bodice construction.

Not a pretty dress. But great fringe. Dress 1855-1857 The Victoria & Albert Museum

Bonnet 1861, American, Made of silk and ostrich feathers ~The look of demure prim gentility was emphasized by the loss of the great hats in 1835 for bonnets. Great hats had given a flirtatious air to clothes and their replacement by bonnets changed the whole character of day dresses.

C.1860 -1862. It was considered a faux pas for the ridges of your hoops to show through your skirt. to fix this, women wore full petticoats, as wide as their outer skirts, to go over the crinoline, to soften the edges of the hoops so they wouldn't show through.

1810 riding habit

Ensemble French, 1879

Alexandra Romanov dress

vintage gown detail

Silk windowpane c. 1860s

Charles Frederick Worth wedding gown worn by Alice Wade Everett 1879

Bib-Front Bodice Styles by HerOdyssey, via Flickr

Dress worn by Maria Feodorovna, 1870’s-80’s

Dress of Empress Alexandra Romanov.

Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Empress Maria Feodorovna, mother of Tsar Nicholas Romanov and Grandmother of Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei Romanov

Darlington, Runk & Co. (American) Dress - Side 1880–85

Evening dress worn by Alexandra Feodorovna, 1900s, Russia

Dress worn by Maria Feodorovna, 1870’s-80’s

Regency gown