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• Victorian Clothing (General)

• Underpinnings

• Accessories

• Technology

• Victorian Menswear 

• Victorian Dress Reform

• Victorian Western Wear

• Victorian Mourning 

• Victorian Children's Fashion

• Links for dating old Photographs

• 1830's

• 1840's

• 1850's

• 1860's

• 1870's

• 1880's

• 1890's

English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century  Dating Old Photographs 1840-1929

Clothes and Crafts in Victorian Times  Sarah Bernhardt Paper Doll (Paper Dolls)

The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930
The Age of Innocence

 Victorian and Edwardian Fashion : A Photographic Survey

Dressed for the Photographer : Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900

19th Century Clothing
American Victorian Costume in Early Photographs
Victorian Fashions Coloring Book

Six Generations Genealogy/History Game

Corsets and Crinolines

The History of Underclothes

HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume VI: A 19th Century Ball: the Charm of Group Dances

HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume V: Victorian Era Couple Dances

Western Wedding Leather & Lace High Heel

Western Wedding Boot Leather

 

Wedding High Heel Leather Black Top Hat Formal Wear

Victorian Clothing (General)

• The History Of Fashion and Dress:  

• The Rise of the Industrial Revolution

• The First and Second Bustle Periods

• The Turn of the 20th Century

• Custom Victorian Dress, Historical Clothing & Living History Presentations by Shooting star enterprises

• Bustledress.com Victorian- Edwardian Antique Vintage Clothing
• Levi Strauss & Co.

• Roman Secret Religious Fraternity Costumes of the 19th Century in hand-colored plates

• Stone's Neat Stuff & Emporium Victorian and Contemporary Knitting Patterns & Buttons
• Victorian Trading Company: Victorian Gifts, Victorian Collectibles, Online Greeting Cards 
• Calico Annie Accessories, historic clothing and historical costumes
• The Great Dickens Christmas Fair
• Turkey Foot Trading Company and Forge LLC Catalog
• Modegeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts
• C & D Jarnagin Company, Civil War uniforms and civilian clothing and equipment, French and Indian War Uniforms and equipment, Revolutionary War Uniforms and equipment, War of 1812 Uniforms and equipment, Mexican War Uniforms and equipment
• Clearwater Hats- Victorian hats, old west hats, civil war hats and many more!
• We Make History: Providers of Historic Dances & Entertainments
  • We Make History - Late Victorian Clothing
  • We Make History - Men's Clothing of the Early Victorian Era
  • We Make History - Early Victorian Ladies' Clothing

Bridal Hat, White Satin Victorian Hat, Roses and Beading

Oak Tree Farms Western Wedding & 1800's Frontier Collection White Altar Lace Up Boots

Oak Tree Farms Black Vesper Lace Up Old Western Frontier Boots

Oak Tree Farms Ivory Vow Lace Up Old Western Frontier Boots

 

Underpinnings

• 19th Century Women's Undergarments

• Lorraine's Underwear, Corset, and Corset Supply Links

• Laughing Moon Mercantile: Victorian & Edwardian Patterns

• BISSONNETTE ON COSTUME The Lingerie Collection: 1800 to 1899

• Message Archive on Hoopskirts  

• 1850s Under Dress Hoop Skirt from Peterson's magazine February 1859
• 1870s Under Dress Dressmaking information on bustles and petticoats from the 1870s
• 1880s Under Dress Dressmaking information on petticoats and bustles from the 1880s
• 1890s Under Dress Dressmaking information on petticoats from the Delineator magazine 1895 and 1896
• An Overview of Underwear Part I - Victorian Ladies Underwear Explained

• Corset c.1830's-1840's 

•      White Satin Steel boned, back lacing over bust corset dress shirt 18"

• Meg Andrews - Antique Costumes and Textiles - Queen Victoria's Underwear
• How To Make a Victorian Corset
• Nineteenth-Century Silhouette and Support Special Topics Page Timeline of Art History
• Victorian & Edwardian Free Patterns Menu - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion
  • Ladies' Short Corset in Grey Coutil, 1869 - The Ladies Treasury Of Costume And Fashion
  • 1853 Stays From Godey's - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion

• Victorian Corset  

• ROMANTASY: The Foyer  

• Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

• Hoop - Image  

• Long Island Staylace Association  

• Stays to Corsets  

• Corsets by The TapDancing Lizard  

• The TapDancing Lizard's Corset Page  

• Corsets from Lord & Taylor, 1881  

• The Lusty Octavia Corset

• Victoriana Directory, Corsets  

• Zoe's Closet Victorian Corsets

• Crinolines and Horsehair Petticoats of the Victorian Era
• Bustles

Oak Tree Farms Antique Saddle Vow Lace Up Old Western Frontier Boots

Little Dorrit

Collectors Encyclopedia of Hairwork Jewelry : Identification & Values

Baker's Encyclopedia of Hatpins and Hatpin Holders

 

Accessories

• Photos of some 19th Century Fans

• Western Wedding Leather & Lace High Heel

• L'Eventail by Uzanne

• Crochet - Bead Crochet - Victorian Crochet Patterns
• Baron Hats - The History of the Top Hat
• Bustledress.com, article Constructing a Reproduction Victorian Purse
• Victorian hair Jewelry information Morning Glory Jewelry
• Victorian jet jewelry Morning Glory Jewelry
• Western Wedding Boots|Laceup Western Wedding Boots|Bridal Boots|Knee High Lace Up Boots|Victorian Boots|Granny Boots|Western Footwear|Edwardian Footwear

• Hair Mourning Jewelry- Victorian Hairwork

• Beetles in Textiles Cultural Entomology Digest 2

• Lang Antiques, Antique Jewelry & Estate Jewelry
  • Lang Antiques-Victorian Jewelry

• 19th Century Hats

• 19th century hairstyles
  • bustle era hairstyles: how-to
    • bustle era hairstyles: early bustle, 1870-1876
    • bustle era hairstyles: natural form period, 1877-1882
    • bustle era hairstyles: second bustle period, 1883-1889
• Kashmir Shawls

• 19th Century Shoes

• Schmuck, Mode Biedermeier (Jewelry)
• Victorian Mantelet Costume History and Pictures
• VintageConnection--VictorianKnittingCONTENTS
  • KNITVictorianLadysSweater
• Hair Dye - References for Romance Fiction
• Wrapped in Splendor: The Art of the Paisley Shawl
• Props Timeline and Product Usage
• Victorian & Etruscan Revival Style Earrings
• 19th Century Pince-Nez, Ed Welch's Antiques, 

• Shirley Anne's Victorian Creations - custom Victorian Purses -- wedding and evening purses, purse kits and patterns, embroidery kits, porcelain dolls and hatpins

• Free Patterns Menu: Period Clothing Patterns and Cutting Diagrams - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion (1850's-1910's for men, women, and children)
  • Articles Menu - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion Victorian Articles

• "Crayon Sketch Book of Fashion for 1881" Published by Plimpton, Fisk & Co., Boston (Catalog of Women's Hats)

• Late Victorian Men's Hats

• The History of Opera Gloves

• China Calico Buttons

• For the Love of Opera Gloves!

• The Bata Shoe Museum: Shoes of the 19th Century

• 19th Century (Shoes in the Northampton Museum)

• CLASSIC-JEWELRY - Manufacturer of fine Garnet Jewelry based on 19th Century Bohemian Designs

• The Dance Card Museum

• Victorian Millinery

• Beetles in Textiles Cultural Entomology Digest 2

• Hair Dressing Instructions 1849

• Antiquing On Line - Costume Jewelry, Victorian Jewelry

• Late Victorian hats (from years 1870-1895)

• "Beyond the Fringe"

• THE HANDBOOK OF GERMAN DRESS- Hair & Headdress 1800s

1886 Professional Criminals of America Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898 Victorian Fashions 1880-1890, Vol. I

 

Technology & Sweatshops

• International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society

• Intown Technology - sewing machine history

• Fashion Factoid Timeline 1750-1860

• The Seamstresses
• Digital Collection - Electric iron 1881
• Digital Collection - Spinning Jenny
• Female Inventors 1790-1895
  • Female Inventors 1790-1895: Clothing Related US Patents
  • Female Inventors 1790-1895: Cosmetics Patents
• The Impact of Machinery on Making Shoes
• Vintage Fabric - A History of Sweatshops
• Digital Collection - Sewing Machine 1860-1870
• Lesson: Industrial Revolution - Seamstresses (Women in World History Curriculum)

• Intown Technology - washing machine history

• DressmakingResearch CDs of Primary sources on fashion, patterning, and millinery 1850-1930s

• MADDER, MINERALS AND INDIGO: COTTON DYEING IN THE 18th & 19th CENTURY

• The History of the Zipper

• Industrial Revolution - Textile Industry and Textile Machinery of the Industrial Revolution

• Modern History Sourcebook: Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls

• The Tailor's Manual, Or Twenty Years a New... - Google Book Search (A book about the business aspect of tailoring in the 19th century, mainly about cash flow, accounting, etc. no pattern diagrams)
• The SINGER Shop - History (Be aware this is NOT fully accurate!!!)
• The History of the Sewing Machine - Elias Howe and Isaac Singer
• The History of Sewing Needles and How They Are Made
• Foreward: Sewing Machines: Historical Trade Literature in Smithsonian Institution Collections
• The Sewing Machine and Quilters in the 19th Century by Kimberly Wulfert, PhD

• Some Textile History (Industrial Revolution)

• Modern History Sourcebook: William Radcliffe: Power Looms, 1828

• Modern History Sourcebook: Richard Guest: The Steam Loom, 1823

• Compare with: Frequently Asked Questions about Spinning Wheels

• History of Washing Machines

• A Propaganda History of the Sewing Machine

• How the Wire Coat Hanger Was Invented

• Sewing Machines from the Past to the Present - Barthélemy Thimonnier

Metropolitan Fashions of the 1880s : From the 1885 Butterick Catalog

Brocade Frontier Vest

Wyatt Stripe Old West Shirt

Heavyweight Wool Frock Coat

Mourning

• Just the Arti-FACTS - Mourning Material
• Civil War-Period Mourning
• Dressed For Mourning
• Wearing Mourning; A True Friend, 1872

• Hair Mourning Jewelry- Victorian Hairwork

• Simpsons Jet Jewellery of Whitby

• Tear Drop Memories - Mourning Jewelry and Vintage Goth Whatnots

• WhitbyJetStore - online store for Whitby Jet Pendants, Earrings, Rings, Cufflinks, Bracelets and Necklets

• Museum of Funeral Customs - History of American funeral and mourning customs, art and practice - Springfield, Illinois IL
• Morbid Outlook - Victorian Mourning Garb
• Victorian mourning etiquette
•   Beautiful Battenburg Lace Fans with Tassel, Large Size in Black
• [Victorian] Culture Speaks Through Its Ritual of Death
• Related link: Antimony & Lace ~ DIY dark and gothic fashion
• Related link: Art of Adornment - Victorian Gothic Jewelry Costume Accessories
• Related link: Cremation Jewelry, Memorial Jewelry & Cremation Lockets by Everlife Memorials
• A Day of Victorian Mourning
•   Elegant Black Parasol with Beaded Fringe Apparel
• Even better Victorian mourning page
• Death in America Exhibit
•   Somewhere in Time Hat Victorian Style Tea Hat designed by Darna Miss Burgundy Crystal Fairy Apparel
• Mourning Back Detail
• Victorian Mourning Customs from Colliers
• Victoriana.Com, "Harpers Bazar" on Mourning
• Romantic Battenburg Lace Parasol with Embroidery in Black,
•  in Beige,  in White

Period Dance

• An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
• Dance Instruction Manuals: Video Directory

Western Tuxedo with Tail

Highland Frock Coat

Oak Tree Farms Ivory Chapel Lace Up Old Western Frontier Boots

Designer Red Victorian Touring Hat, Hand Trimmed

1830's

• Timeline of Costume History Romantic Era 1825-1850

• Corset c.1830's-1840's  

• 1800-1845 Regency to Romantic Fashion and Costume
• The Royal Lady's Magazine, Fashion and more, 1831
• Paris histoire des modes, Parisian costumes of the 1830s
• Costume History:Directoire/Empire/Romantic
• The Romantic Era
  • A Corset, c. 1820-1840
    • My 1820-1840 Corset Reproduction
  • A Late 1830s Evening Bodice
• Women in America 1824-1835 Contemporary texts on Fashion
• A Year in Fashion: 1838
• Internet Archive: Free Download: The whole art of dress! or, The road to elegance and fashion, at the enormous saving of thirty Percent, Illustrated treatise on Men's Fashions of 1830
• Internet Archive: Free Download: The Toilette of health, beauty, and fashion ... : including the comforts of dress, and the decoration of the neck ... with directions for the use of most safe and salutary cosmetics ... and a variety of select recipes for the dressing room of both sexes, 1832
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Correo de las damas, periódico de modas, bellas artes, amena literatura, musica, teatros, etc. Dec. 9, 1833-Apr. 30, 1834
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Le romantisme et la mode : d'après des documents inédits (Fashion and the Romantic Movement -1830s)
• YouTube - How to Twist an 1836 Bun
• Clothing Of The 1830s
• Fashion on the Ohio Frontier: 1790-1840
• 1835 Costume

• Victoriana Library- Woman's Fashions 1825-1840

• 1830's Women's Dresses

• Andrew Jackson and His Family Paper Dolls

• Contemporary text THE YOUNG MAN'S GUIDE. BY WM. A. ALCOTT. TENTH EDITION. 1836.

• Costumes Parisiens 1824-1830

• archive clothing 1700-1837

• Chronologie de la Mode 1830 Texte repères

• Digital Collection - 1830 - 1850 New England Bonnet
• Of Men & Their Elegance
  • Of Men & Their Elegance: 1780s-1830s: 'Sir, you have forgot your horse'
• Early Vict'n Costume
• Romantic Fashion Plates
• how to make an 1830's - early 1850's crinoline
• Bissonnette on Costume: Time Search: Nineteenth Century: 1830-1839
• The whole art of dress! or, The road to elegance and fashion, at the enormous saving of thirty... 1830. - Google Book Search
• More Fashions of the 1830's
• Observations on the Quaker-peculiarities of.dress 1836.. - Google Book Search
• The Royal Lady's Magazine, 1831

• Yahoo! Groups : HistoricCostuming_Romantic

• 1830s in fashion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Digital Collection - 1830 Wedding Dress

• Historische Kostüme: Biedermeier & Romantik

  • Historische Kostüme: Biedermeier & Romantik

• Costumes Francaise: The Reign of Louis Philippe

• Plates from The Ladies Pocket Magazine 1834

• California Fashions Pre 1849

• Digital Collection - Stock (tie) 1830-1850

• The History of Fashion and Dress: The Rise of the Industrial Revolution

'New Raiments of Self' : African American Clothing in the Antebellum South

American Family of the Civil War Era Paper Dolls in Full Color

American Pioneer Family Paper Dolls

1840's

• Timeline of Costume History Romantic Era 1825-1850

• Digital Collection - Top hat 1844
• Early Vict'n Costume

• The History of Fashion and Dress: The Rise of the Industrial Revolution

• The Life of Ellen White by D.M. Canright - The Reform Dress

• Posing for Paper Dolls: Man's dressing gown 1840s
• Digital Collection - 1830 - 1850 New England Bonnet
• A Year in Fashion: 1841
• A Year in Fashion: 1849
• To the Reform Dress Association : Peterboro, May 18th 1857.

• French Fashion Plates c.1840-1850

• 1845-1890 dresses

• Daguerreotypes

• 1840s in fashion Information from Answers.com
• The ladies' cabinet of fashion 1847... - Google Book Search
• Of Men & Their Elegance
  • Of Men & Their Elegance: 1840s-1880s
• Digital Collection - "The Pumpkin Hood", c.1900 image of an antique (c.1840's) calash
• Digital Collection - Elsa Eager (1893-1927) in Calash
• Digital Collection - Eleanor M. Arms (1864-1937) also shown in another old calash
• Fashion Plates 1840-1880
• Digital Collection - Carpet Bag, 1840-1850
• Digital Collection - Stock (tie) 1830-1850
• how to make an 1830's - early 1850's crinoline
• Bissonnette on Costume: Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1840 to 1859

• Yahoo! Groups : HistoricCostuming_Romantic

• boys clothing styles: 1840s

• California Fashions Pre 1849

• Corset c.1830's-1840's  

• Historische Kostüme: Biedermeier & Romantik

  • Historische Kostüme: Biedermeier & Romantik

• An 1840 Bridal Dress - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion

• Costume of the California Gold Rush

• Hair Dressing Instructions 1849

• Hints on Equestrianism for the Fair Sex (Illustrated) 1848-1849

• Fashion and Caricatures from Godey's Lady's Book, 1848-1849

• "The Work Table"  Needlework instructions from Godey's 1848-1849

• "A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist"

Video: How to Dance Through Time Vol 01: The Romance of Mid 19th Century Couple Dances 

Beautiful Battenburg Lace Fans with Tassel, Large Size in Black

Victorian Debutante Paper Doll Civil War Fashions Coloring Book Bridal Hoop

 

 

1850's

• Timeline of Costume History Hoop Era 1850-1870

• MATHEW BRADY PORTRAITS

• Victorian Sleeves - Various Styles of Mid-Victorian Sleeve
• Textiles for Early Victorian Clothing: 1850-1880
• Fashion Plates 1840-1880
• Bissonnette on Costume: Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1840 to 1859
• Gentleman's Emporium Victorian Sutler to Civil War Reenactors
• Silken Memories, Traditions and Customs of the Victorian wedding
• 1850s in fashion Information from Answers.com
• The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion 1857 ... - Google Book Search
• Levi Strauss & Co.
• A Year in Fashion: 1856
•   Fashions and Costumes from Godey's Lady's Book
• Of Men & Their Elegance
  • Of Men & Their Elegance: 1840s-1880s
• Victoriana.Com, Study Center 1850's Fashion Plates
• Katherine's Dress Site: Reproduction Historic Fashion and Fashion History
  • Mid-Nineteenth Century
• History of the 1857 Promenade Dress and Notes on Late 1850s Fashion

• Spectator Sports: Exhibitionism and Voyeurism in Antebellum America

• Greenberg: Godey's Lady's Book: Sewing Instructions and needlework patterns 1850-1860

• 1850s Under Dress Hoop Skirt from Peterson's magazine February 1859
• 1850s in fashion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• 1850 Women's Fashion Plates from Paris

• MFA - Exhibition - High Style and Hoopskirts: 1850s Fashion

• Dress of the 1850's

• Elizabeth Keckley biography
• Elizabeth Keckley, ca. 1818-1907 Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.
• Gallery of Costume - Reversible Damask Dressing Gown 1840-1860
• Crinoline Fashion Plates Document
• how to make an 1830's - early 1850's crinoline

• Costume of the California Gold Rush

• Internet Archive: Free Download: Dress as a fine art. With suggestions on children's dress 1854
• White Elegance - "Pioneer" Clothing for women and girls
• A Lady's Guide To Perfect Gentility, 1856

• boys clothes: 1850s

• Yahoo! Groups : HistoricCostuming_Crinoline

• John Brown Shirt

• Historische Kostüme: Biedermeier & Romantik

  • Historische Kostüme: Biedermeier & Romantik

• Modern History Sourcebook: Count von Moltke: The Coronation of Tsar Alexander II, 1855

• Mid 19th Century Costumes from the Index of American Design pt 1

• 1845-1890 dresses
• Mid-Nineteenth Century
• Crinolines and Horsehair Petticoats of the Victorian Era

• Chronologie de la Mode 1856 Texte repères

• The Life of Ellen White by D.M. Canright - The Reform Dress

• Contemporary text How to be a lady: a book for girls, containing useful hints on the formation of character 1850

• Daguerreotypes

• Costume History: Crinoline Period

• The History of Fashion and Dress: The Rise of the Industrial Revolution

• Men's Fashion Engravings From the Journal Des Marchands Tailleurs, Paris, 1856-64

• Ladies Indispensable Assistant, 1852

• "A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist"

Period Costume for Stage & Screen : Patterns for Women's Dress, 1800-1909,  Victorian Costume
  80 Godey's Full-Color Fashion Plates (1838-1880)
Children's Fashions, 1860-1912 : 1,065 Costume Designs from 'La Mode Illustree' American Dress Pattern Catalog, 1873-1909 Victoria and Albert Paper Dolls
Garment Patterns : 1889

HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume V: Victorian Era Couple Dances

1860's

• Timeline of Costume History Hoop Era 1850-1870

• Civil War Photographs

• Simplicity Patterns Civil War Collection - History, Patterns, etc
• The Vintage Connection
  • Pattern for Boy's Civil War Era Knickerbocker Suit
  • Pattern for Woman's Civil War Era Shoe
• Victoriana.Com, Study Center Fashion plates of 1860
• Crinoline Fashion Plates Document
• Coon River Mercantile - Civil War Uniforms, Clothing And Accessories
• CivilWarLady.com
• 1860s in fashion Information from Answers.com
• Internet Archive: Free Download: The London and Paris ladies' magazine of fashion, ed. by mrs. Edward Thomas, 1866
• Elizabeth Keckley biography
• Elizabeth Keckley, ca. 1818-1907 Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.
• Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
• Bissonnette on Costume; Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1860-1870
• Victoriana.Com, Study Center Fashion plates of 1861-1865
• Lunaelbia : Victorian Costume resources, esp.US Civil War era
• Alaina's Guide to Civil War Hairstyles
• Lady-in-hoop-skirt-1860s
• Vintage Pix | The 1860s and 1870s
• Regulations for the dress of ... offices of the.Army 1864.. - Google Book Search
• Civil War Hats
• Costume History: Crinoline Period
• Mid-Nineteenth Century
  • An 1860s Bodice
  • A Swiss Waist, c. 1860
    • A Swiss Waist, c. 1860
  • A Chemise, c. 1865
  • A Late 1860s Bodice
• Past Reflections - Civil War Clothing
• Digital Collection - Wedding Dress, c. 1865
• Digital Collection - Wedding Dress, 1861
• Of Men & Their Elegance
  • Of Men & Their Elegance: 1840s-1880s
• Welcome to C.J. Daily Civil War Sutlers
• The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers 1860s Costuming
• Fashion Plates 1840-1880
• Dresden Dry Goods : Specializing in reproduction parasols and cage crinolines
• Mrs. Christen’s Miscellanea Civil War Drygoods
• Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine 1861
• Silhouettes of Style: Fashions from the Martha McCaskey Selhorst Collection  (1860's gown)

• Some selections from "Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians" 1860, by E.W.Lane Chapters on Dress, Public Dancers, and Female Ornaments. 

• Lincoln Assassination Artifacts: Wet With Blood

• Civil War - Historical Reenactment - Net Links

• Elizabeth Keckley, Freed Slave and Dressmaker to a First Lady

• 1845-1890 dresses
• Arms of Valor, Ltd.: Civil War

• Yahoo! Groups : HistoricCostuming_Crinoline

• Fashion and Needlework in Peterson's Magazine, 1863

  • Part 1

• Plates from the Journal des Demoiselles Paris ~ 1861

• Galla Rock Mercantile-Sutler Civil War

• The Book of Snobs And, Sketches and Travels in London 1869... - Google Book Search

• Fall Creek Suttlery , Civil War Reenacting Equipment and Uniforms Sutler

• Civil War Cartes de Visite from the Library of Congress

• Harriet's Then & Now; Civil War Dress

• Men's and Boy's Fashion Engravings From the Journal Des Marchands Tailleurs, Paris, 1856-64

• FAMSF: Wedding Dress c. 1860

• boys clothes: 1860s

• The Girls of '61 - Civil War Vivandières - Sally Queen & Associates

• Gentleman's Emporium Victorian Sutler to Civil War Reenactors
• American Civil War uniforms, Victorian clothing, reenactors, sutler

•  Civil War Family Photos

• "A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist"

• MATHEW BRADY PORTRAITS

• Original Civil War Uniform Frock Coat
• CONFEDERATE SURGEON'S FROCK COAT
• American Civil War uniforms, Victorian clothing, reenactors, sutler
• Victorian civilian sack coat and sack coat suit (19th century clothing, Civil War clothes)
• Men's Victorian Clothing, including American Civil War

• Vintage Pix | The 1860s and 1870s

• Yahoo! Groups : CivilWarLady

• Period Impressions Civil War Civilian Dress

• Chronologie de la Mode 1869 Texte repères

• 10th. S.C. Infantry Ladies Auxiliary

• Godey's Lady's Book, January 1863

• Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page

• The History of Fashion and Dress: The Rise of the Industrial Revolution

• Lazy Jacks Mess - Reference Guide to Mens Attire in the 1860's

• Online Library: Frank Leslie's Gazette of Fashion, 1864

• Historische Kostüme: Gründerzeit

  • Historische Kostüme: Gründerzeit

50 Heirloom Buttons to Make : A gallery of decorative fabric, needle-lace, crochet, and ribbon and braid closures you can create

Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

1870's

• The First and Second Bustle Periods

• Timeline of Costume History First Bustle 1870's

• 1870s Under Dress Dressmaking information on bustles and petticoats from the 1870s

• Yahoo! Groups : HistoricCostuming_Bustle

• Historische Kostüme: Gründerzeit

  • Historische Kostüme: Gründerzeit

• Pages & Images from Demorest's Magazine, 1879

• Vintage Pix | The 1860s and 1870s
• The Queen Magazine, August 30, 1873
• Bissonnette on Costume; Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1870 to 1876
• Peterson's Magazine - January - June 1876
• Bustles
• 1870s in fashion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Hints on dress, or, what to wear, when to wear. 1872.. - Google Book Search
• The Science of Taste 1879... - Google Book Search
• Bustles. Victorian First and Second Bustle Era 1870s and 1880s
• 1870s in fashion Information from Answers.com
• Digital Collection - Plaid boy's suit, c.1870
• Digital Collection - Boy's Suit c. 1870
• Digital Collection - Boy's Dress c. 1875
• Bissonnette on Costume: Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1877 to 1882
• Art in ornament and dress. 1877- Google Book Search
• bustle era hairstyles: early bustle, 1870-1876
• bustle era hairstyles: natural form period, 1877-1882

• Dress of Notable Men of the 1870's from Vanity Fair

• Victorian Era 1870's -1890's Patterns

• A Victorian Elegance -1870's - 1920's

• boys clothes: 1870s

• The Great Striped Dress "Debate" page

• A Victorian Elegance -More 1870's - 1920's

• The dyer's instructer comprising practical. 1876.. - Google Book Search
• Of Men & Their Elegance
  • Of Men & Their Elegance: 1840s-1880s
• 'The Slaughter of Birds' from 1876 - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion
• 1845-1890 dresses
• Phantom of the Opera Costume Resources
• The Bustle
• History of 1870s Bustles
• History of the 1874 Bustled Dinner Gown
• History of the Sack Suit and Notes on Late 1870s Fashion

• Vintage Pix | The 1860s and 1870s

• Dolly Varden (costume) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Pages from Demorest's Magazine, 1879

• FAMSF: Woman's Bonnet 1875-1885 by Mme. Julia

• 1870s Dress Dressmaking information on bustle dress garments
• 1878 Ball & Bridal Dresses - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion
• 1879 Wedding Fashions - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion
• Wearing Mourning; A True Friend, 1872

• Chronologie de la Mode 1877 Texte repères

• Joseph Howe (1804-1873) Once More I Put my Bonnet On 1874

• The Ladies 1872

• Internet Archive: Free Download: the gazette of fashion, and cutting-room companion, 1870, Edward Minister Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
• Internet Archive: Free Download: the gazette of fashion, Edward Minister 1873 (Tailoring Diagrams) Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
• Costume History: Late Victorian
• Bustle Fashion Plates

• Plates from Le Costume Historique by Racinet 1878

• Tea Gowns for Distinction and Comfort, 1870-1920
• Tea gown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Top Hat 2-c. 1870s

• A Separate Sphere: Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age, 1877-1922

Elegant Black Victorian Touring Hat in Chiffon with Flowers

  From the Neck Up : An Illustrated Guide to Hatmaking

Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns : Complete Lady's Wardrobe Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwoman's Dresses and Their Construction: c.1660-1860

Patterns of Fashion 2 : Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940

Amazon.com Overland Trail Dress Pattern

59 Authentic Turn-Of-The-Century Fashion Patterns

Theatre and Fashion : Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes

 

1880's

• The First and Second Bustle Periods

• Timeline of Costume History Second Bustle 1880's

• "Crayon Sketch Book of Fashion for 1881" Published by Plimpton, Fisk & Co., Boston (Catalog of Women's Hats)

• Tara's Dead Irish-American Relatives of the 1880's

• Victorian Dress Reform Links

• Bustle Fashion Plates
• Internet Archive: Free Download: The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-room Companion, 1881, Edward Minister, Tailoring Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
• YouTube - How to Use a Hairpiece 1886
• Our Deportment - Or, The Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society By John H. Young 1880 - Google Book Search
• A Few Words on Laundry Work from 1889 - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion
• Dolly Varden (costume) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• 1880s in fashion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• c.1880 Bustle Bodice
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Fall and winter catalogue 1884
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly 1883
• 1880s Under Dress Dressmaking information on petticoats and bustles from the 1880s
• Vintage Pix | The 1880s and 1890s
• 1880s in fashion Information from Answers.com
• Digital Collection - Dress, 1888
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Notes on civil costume in England from the conquest to the regency. As exemplified in the International Health Exhibition, South Kensington 1884

• Elegant Woman c. 1881

• Katherine's Dress Site: Reproduction Historic Fashion and Fashion History
  • The Bustle Era
• History of the1888 Reception Toilette and notes on late 1880s Fashions
• Bustles. Victorian First and Second Bustle Era 1870s and 1880s
• The Vintage Connection
  • Annie Jenness Miller, Dress Reform
• The Works of Max Beerbohm - Chapter III On the Fashions and Fads of English Society in 1880
• A Year in Fashion: 1882: Etiquette

• Fashion and Needlework from Peterson's Magazine, November 1880

• English Arts & Crafts Textiles
• The World of Oscar Wilde by David Claudon
• The Great Striped Dress "Debate" page
• Bissonnette on Costume: Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1877 to 1882
• bustle era hairstyles: natural form period, 1877-1882

• The influential Ancient Greek Female Costume, by J.Moyr Smith, 1882.

• Of Men & Their Elegance
  • Of Men & Their Elegance: 1840s-1880s
• The Bustle Era
  • c.1880 Bustle Bodice
• bustle era hairstyles: second bustle period, 1883-1889
• Bissonnette on Costume: Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1883 to 1889

• Fashion Magazine Covers 1889-1900

• Yahoo! Groups : HistoricCostuming_Bustle

• Historische Kostüme: Gründerzeit

  • Historische Kostüme: Gründerzeit

• Plates from the Catalogue of Exhibits and Gazette of the Rational Dress Association 1883

• The Bustle

• kakurlander's Final Project Page c.1885 Lady's Jacket

  • Auxiliary Project: The McDowell Garment Drafting Machine c. 1886

• Two 1883 Overprinted Pattern Supplements from Harper's Bazar

• FAMSF: Woman's Bonnet 1875-1885 by Mme. Julia

• boys clothing styles: 1880s

• FAMSF: Woman's Bonnet 1885-1888

• FAMSF: Mulberry Velvet Bonnet c. 1885-1890

• Costume History: Late Victorian

• Portrait of Madame X. 1884

• 1845-1890 dresses

• Victorian Era 1870's -1890's Patterns

• Lillie Langtry

• Vintage Clothing Selection 1880-1900

• A Victorian Elegance - 1880's-1910

• A Victorian Elegance -1870's - 1920's

• A Victorian Elegance -More 1870's - 1920's

• The Fashion in the 1880s

• Internet Archive: Free Download: Selections from essays on health culture and the sanitary woolen system 1886 Dr. Jaeger

• Laughing Moon Saloon Girl Pattern - Grannd Garb

• A Year in Fashion: 1886, Delineator Magazine

• Vintage Pix | The 1880s and 1890s

• Laughing Moon Mercantile pattern company

• Internet Archive: Free Download: Fancy dresses described : or, What to wear at fancy balls 1887
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Hint's about men's dress, right principles economically applied 1888
• Aesthetic Dress in the 19th Century - Victoria and Albert Museum
• Fashion in deformity, 1881 ... - Google Book Search

• Corsets from Lord & Taylor, 1881

• The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - On Dress and Deportment - 1889
• Project Gutenberg Edition of Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Dress- 1889
• Anti-Fashion, or Victorian Attempts at Reform of Male and Female Dress
• 1880s in fashion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Art as applied to dress, with special reference to Harmonious Coloring 1885... - Google Book Search
• Whistler, Women, and Fashion - New York Art Review
• John Sargent's Madame X
• Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Spring 2002 -Beetle Abominations and Birds on Bonnets- Zoological Fantasy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Dress

• Paris Musee de la Mode Late 19th & 20th Century Costume

• Past Patterns: 1880-1890's Patterns

• The True Story of the Tuxedo

• 1886 Delineator Magazine, Costume Research Library

• CMCC - Dressing Up Canada: Late Victorian Fancy Dress Balls

• VPLL: Myra's Journal, October 1889

• 1880s Day and Evening Dress

• Museum of Fine Arts - John Singer Sargent

• The Dress of Civilized Woman - Mark Twain 1882

• FAMSF: 1885 Worth Gown

• Tea Gowns for Distinction and Comfort, 1870-1920

• 1880's Gallery

• 1880s Over Dress An outer garment from Peterson's magazine May 1884

• A Year in Fashion: 1886, Delineator Magazine: Victorian Children's Bustle Costumes

• Casebook: Jack the Ripper -Description of murder Witnesses including clothing

• Cutting A Foundation Skirt (or Bustle; includes pattern) (1888)

• Selections from the George Kennan Papers (Siberian Gulags and Russian Officials in 1885)

• Late Victorian Men's Hats

• Photographs of Women in the '80s and '90s

• The John C. H. Grabill Collection (South Dacota 1888-1891)

• "Sloperia, etc." a c.1890 Young Man's scrap book of pictures of pretty girls from drawings and magazines 1885-1895 Including Burlesque performers, sexy masquerade costumes, fashions and jokes from "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday", "Vogue" and more.

Paris Fashions of the 1890s : A Picture Source Book With 350 Designs, Including 24 in Full Color

Great Fashion Designs of the Victorian Era : Papers Dolls in Full Color

Men's Fashion Illustrations from the Turn of the Century Fashion and Women's Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century Forgotten Elegance : The Art, Artifacts, and Peculiar History of Victorian and Edwardian Entertaining in America

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England : From 1811-1901

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew : From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England

Wedding Fashions 1862-1912 : 380 Costume Designs from 'LA Mode Illustree' Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from 'LA Mode Illustree

Past into Present : Effective Techniques for First-Person Historical Interpretation

Victorian Fashion in America : 264 Vintage Photographs

Victorian & Edwardian Fashions for Women, 1840 to 1919

The Short Victorian Corset

1890's

• Timeline of Costume History Belle Epoque 1890's

• The Turn of the 20th Century

• Late Victorian Men's Hats

• Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking - 1898- Google Book Search
• Robert de Montesquiou or the art of showing off - Musee d'Orsay - Absolutearts.com
• Women's Hats 1890-1914

• Three volumes of from 1893-1898 of The Cutter's Practical Guide by W. D. F. Vincent, including:

  • Part 1, 1898 edition, Young Men's, Youths' and Juvenile Garments, Embracing also Treatise on Trousers, Vests, Military Garments, Liveries, etc., etc., etc.

  • Part 2, 1893 edition, Body Coats of every description, embracing Morning, Frock and Dress Coats, Livery, Clerical, Naval, Military, Police and other Special Garments

  • Part 9,1898 edition,  Jacket Cutting and Making, Embracing Lounges, Reefers & Patrol Jackets, in all their Varieties, Also Including the Cutting and Making of Robes and Gowns

• Raccoon Coat circa 1895

• Internet Archive: Free Download: Dress, and how to improve it - 1894 (Includes many photos of female Dress reform garments)
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Home dressmaking and the art of good dressing (Includes Patterns for women's dress c. 1890-94)
• The Vintage Connection
  • Pattern for Girl's 1890s Empire Dress
• Of Men & Their Elegance
  • Of Men & Their Elegance: 1890s-1930s

• Stern Brothers, No. 66, 1890 Fall & Winter 1891, Fashion Catalog (Women's, Men's, and Children's fashion and accessories) 

• Bissonnette on Costume: Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1890 to 1899
• Internet Archive: Free Download: What dress makes of us 1897
• YouTube - Diana Vreeland and Douglas Fairbanks Junior, Belle Epoque
• The Woman Beautiful - 1899 - Google Book Search
• "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
• Costume History: Late Victorian
• Arts and Crafts movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• 1890s Under Dress Dressmaking information on petticoats from the Delineator magazine 1895 and 1896
• Vintage Pix | Women at Work
• Digital Collection - Wedding Gown c. 1896
• Vintage Pix | The 1880s and 1890s
• 1890s in fashion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Digital Collection - Tea gown or Dressing gown, mid 1890's
• The World of Oscar Wilde by David Claudon
• Excessive Adornment in Dress [from the Free Presbyterian Magazine, January, 1897]
• Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Spring 2002 -Beetle Abominations and Birds on Bonnets- Zoological Fantasy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Dress
• Victorian & Edwardian Free Patterns Menu - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion
  • Ladies' Bodice with Bolero Front, 1896 - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion
• History of the 1894 Walking Suit and notes on mid-1890s Fashions
• 1890 Beauty
• 1899 Wedding Gown

• "Sloperia, etc." a c.1890 Young Man's scrap book of pictures of pretty girls from drawings and magazines 1885-1895 Including Burlesque performers, sexy masquerade costumes, fashions and jokes from "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday", "Vogue" and more.

• World Travel in the 1890's - The Photographic History on CD
• The Passing Show, Drawings by A.B. Wenzell copyright 1898, 1899, 1900, A Compilation of Illustrations from Collier's Weekly showing the Fashionable world in America and Europe, and Sentimental and Dramatic Subjects

• Thompson's Universal System, by Mrs. F. E. Thompson, c.1899 and "Use of the Scroll" by Mme. H.J. Hall, 1914

• Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Black Court Dress of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria

• Yahoo! Groups : HistoricCostuming_Bustle

• Historische Kostüme: Belle Epoque / Jahrhundertwende

  • Historische Kostüme: Belle Epoque / Jahrhundertwende

• Late Victorian and Edwardian Lingerie Dresses
• 1898 "A Girls Point of View" about clothes
• TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY DETACHABLE COLLARS (Men's)
• A Separate Sphere: Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age, 1877-1922
• Women's Turn of the Century Hard Collars
• Obtaining Hard Collars Now & Places that sell Retro Menswear
• Ads for Men's Collars and Shirts c. 1880- 1930

• Patterns for Men's and Women's Detachable collars 1850-1930

  • These same collars in PDF (printable) format

• Courtesans' Costumes Redeemed as Couture

• boys clothing styles: 1890s

• Past Patterns: 1898 Girl's Dress

• Past Patterns: 1880-1890's Patterns

• The Works of Max Beerbohm - Table of Contents
  • The Works of Max Beerbohm - Chapter V - A Defence of Cosmetics 1894

• FAMSF: Rose Velvet Hat 1891-1892

• FAMSF: Woman's Hat 1890-1900 by Mme. Heitz Boyer

• Laughing Moon Mercantile: Victorian & Edwardian Patterns

• La Belle Epoque 1890-1914 Fashion
• women's fashion 1890-1920

• FAMSF: Paquin 1890-1900 Dress

• Fashion Magazine Covers 1889-1900

• Ladies Dresses 1890-1900

• Trade Catalogs: Daily Life

• Early History of Sears Roebuck Catalog

• Sears, Roebuck and Co.

• 1890-1914 La Belle Epoque - Golden Age of Edwardian England

• James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892) Men and Women 1891

• The complete pamphlet Make Up Book for Professionals by F.W. Nack, Chicago, c.1900 showing makeup styles used for the various race, age and sex stereotypes popular on stage at the turn of the last century.

• Vintage Clothing Selection 1890's

• Vintage Clothing Selection 1890-1915

• A Victorian Elegance - 1880's-1910

• Charles Dana Gibson

• A Victorian Elegance -1870's - 1920's

• Menswear of the Turn of the Century

• A Victorian Elegance -More 1870's - 1920's

• Tea Gowns for Distinction and Comfort, 1870-1920

• Invention of the Tuxedo

• The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers 1890 Costuming
• Aesthetic Dress Inspirations

• Vintage Pix | The 1880s and 1890s

• WNYC - Reading Room: Inventing Beauty (About Makeup in the late 19th and Early 20th Centuries)

• Victorian Era 1870's -1890's Patterns

• 1895 Evening Skirt Pattern

• Paris histoire des modes, costumes (Photos of Paris street vendors and characters of the 1890s)

• Max Beerbohm on Dandies and Dandies 1896

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Costume, House of Worth

• Women and Bicycles - Fashion for the Active Woman, 1894 Style

• South Dakota in the 1890s

• Internet Archive: Free Download: Eaton's Fall and Winter Catalogue 1899-1900
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Spring and Summer Catalogue No. 27 - 1894
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Fashion's slaves (1892 Dress Reform Tract, illustrated)
• Godey's Magazine -1897 Google Book Search

• Photographs of Women in the '80s and '90s

• 1890's Costumes from the Index of American Design

• The Ladies Home Journal- September 1893 Vintage Magazine

• Women and Bicycles - Fashion for the Active Woman, 1894 Style

• Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society (1893)

• Early Motion Pictures Home Page

• Russian Portraits from the Age of Chechov

• CMCC - Dressing Up Canada: Late Victorian Fancy Dress Balls

• Museum of Fine Arts - John Singer Sargent

• Ladies Costumes 1890-1920

• 1890s Dress Dressmaking information on 1890s dresses
• An 1896 Bridal Toilette - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion
• Introductory Items to the Lafayette Collection 1897-1930
  • Thumbnails of images of royalty in the Lafayette Archive at the V&A
  • Court Dress Images by Lafayette
  • Ethiopians
  • Stage
  • Thumbnails of sitters in costume connected with the Church
  • Military Images by Lafayette
  • Wedding photographs by Lafayette
  • Lafayette - portraits of sitters from Japan, China, Malaysia, Thailand
  • Indian sitters in the Lafayette Archive at the V&A
  • Devonshire House Ball

• Amazon.com: buying info: 59 Authentic Turn-Of-The-Century Fashion Patterns

• Paris Musee de la Mode Late 19th & 20th Century Costume

• 1892 Lace Mantle
• WOMAN'S SLAVERY TO FASHION; SHE ADMIRES IDEAL GARMENTS, BUT WILL NOT W... - Article Preview - The New York Times 1894 dress reform

• Online Library: Ladies Home Journal: September 1893

• Online Library: Ladies Home Journal: March 1894

• Online Library: Ladies Home Journal: April 1894

• 1890s in fashion Information from Answers.com

• Thorstein Veblen -- The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) -- Chapter Seven -- Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture

• Once Upon A Pattern - 1895 Crochet Garter

• MIXED PICKLES' Vintage Choreography 1899