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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  

• 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  

• 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
• 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

• 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

• Museum of Funeral Customs - History of American funeral and mourning customs, art and practice - Springfield, Illinois IL
•   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
• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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