Women's Fashion in the 19th Century

19th century | Fashion History Timeline

For a brief overview, see the V&A's "Introduction to 19th-Century Fashion" and "History of Fashion, 1840-1900."

Fashion in the 19th century - Google Arts & Culture

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The History of Fashion Through The Decades - GLAM OBSERVER

Let’s delve into the fascinating history of fashion through the decades and explore the history from the 1900s until the present day.

A collection of 1800s home designs with floor plans from one of my home library reference books, published in the mid 1880s.

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Cecilia Bleasdale just needed a dress to wear to her daughter’s wedding. She had no idea what was about to happen. After considering several frocks, she sent photos of three to her daughter, Grace, informing her she’d purchased one of them. “Oh, the white and gold one?” Grace replied. “No,” Cecilia answered. “It’s blue and […]

A Catalog of an Entire House/Life

In a period of four years, Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing in her house, “from my daughters torn sock to my sons

Variations on ‘Plainness’: Quaker Dress in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

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The Global Village Coffeehouse Aesthetic | Are.na Editorial

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Agency and Agents

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Agency and Agents

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The Irving Penn Foundation

Official website of The Irving Penn Foundation, with background information on the life and career of photographer Irving Penn. Includes images, biography, chronology, exhibition list, bibliography, and news.

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Plain and peculiar: a case study of nineteenth-century Quaker clothing

Material culture scholars have long struggled to reconcile the Quaker doctrine of plainness with the appearance of Quaker material goods. Early descriptions of Quakers and early scholarship on Quaker clothing decreed that Quakers adopted a distinct style of dress that set them apart from their non-Quaker neighbors. This idea has grown into a mythology of Quaker dress and has led to the erroneous idea that all Quakers wore undecorated clothing in somber colors. This thesis first traces the history of scholarship on Quaker clothing, the early years of which were heavily influenced by Colonial Revival thinking. It then examines the concept of “plainness” to see how confusion over the meaning of the word has led to confusion about Quaker material goods. Finally, this thesis uses a collection of documentably Quaker clothing from the nineteenth century to examine the ways in which clothing and religion intersected for one particular group of Delaware Valley Friends and to expand the boundaries of the traditional definitions of “Quaker” dress.