What men and women wore in the 1890s (original) (raw)

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• Fashionable Dress for a Day at Home
• Men's informal sporting dress, late 1880s and '90s
• A Cardiff Times column on the well-dressed man
• Sporty daytime wear for upper-class men and women
• Fashionable Dress for a Walk in the Country
• Appropriate dress for afternoon visiting
• Capes, muffs, and hats
• Elegant daytime wear for upper-class men and women (visiting the Royal Academy exhibition)
• Man's daytime clothing for business and parliament
• Public school uniform
• Man's white-tie and tails and women’s evening dress with gloves and fan
• Man's white-tie and tails and woman’s low-cut evening gown
• The Crinoline Scare
• Miss Jessie on Crinolines
• Elegant summer outdoor clothing
• Shopping in the arcade
• Shopping for toys in the arcade
• Country-man — laborer or farmer
• Artist painting in his studio
• Artist painting outside
• Uniform for maidservant in wealthy home
• Dress for male and female servants in a very wealthy home

Bibliography

Fun 57-58 (1893). Hathi Digital Library Trust version of a copy in the University of Minnesota library. Web. 1 February 2016.

Nunn, Joan. Fashion in Costume, 1200-2000. 2nd edition. Chicago: New Amsterdam Books, 2000.

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