Fashion can rightfully be called a mirror of the era. A feature of the fashion of the 19th century was that over the course of the century, women's costume had undergone significant changes.
History of fashion of the 19th century
From the 18th century to the new, 19th century, the fashion for the dresses of a rectangular silhouette with a highly inflated waistline in the so-called Empire style passed. But already in the early 20-ies in fashion returns to the hard corset, and under the dress is worn heavily starched lower skirts. True, the dresses get a little shorter and resemble a narrow bell. By the early 30s of the 19th century, women's fashion was entering the era of Romanticism. Appear dresses with the lowered line of the shoulder, voluminous and strongly expanded in the upper part of the sleeves and a wide skirt long to the bones. Fashion on a thin waist was supported by all the same corsets, and wide sleeves and a skirt with several starched podsjubnikami (sometimes their number reached 8) only strengthened the effect. Then the fashion enters the era of the second Rococo, focusing on the style of the 18th century. Incredibly wide skirts are worn on a special skeleton - crinoline.
By the mid-seventies of the 19th century, tall, slender figures and Russian fashion were becoming fashionable. Appear dresses, in which the skirt was selected back and heavily draped. And to achieve a larger volume under the skirt mounted special rollers made of cotton wool or small metal frames. This was the era of the bustle.
It is worth noting that the Russian fashion of the 19th century had its own distinctive feature. Somewhere in the middle of the century, the movement of Slavophiles, critical of imitation of Western trends, gained momentum. Pre-Petrine Russian clothing was widely promoted. The so-called "a la Russe" style was born. Women wear very simple, with no additional details of the dress. Tournament is replaced by a bow or a small drapery. People's crafts are recognized, and special popularity comes to the Pavlovsky-Posad shawls.
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