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DOVER BOOKS ON FASHION
ACKERMANN’S COSTUME PLATES, Rudolph Ackermann. (0-486-23690-0)
ALTMAN’S SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS CATALOG, 1915, B. Altman & Co. (0-486-28527-8)
BRITISH COSTUME FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO 1820: WITH 468 ILLUSTRATIONS, Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown. (0-486-41813-8)
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH FASHION PLATES IN FULL COLOR, Stella Blum (ed.). (0-486-24331-1)
EVERYDAY FASHIONS OF THE THIRTIES AS PICTURED IN SEARS CATALOGS, Stella Blum (ed.). (0-486-25108-X)
EVERYDAY FASHIONS OF THE TWENTIES AS PICTURED IN SEARS AND OTHER CATALOGS, Stella Blum. (0-486-24134-3)
FASHIONS AND COSTUMES FROM GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK, Stella Blum (ed.). (0-486-24841-0)
PARIS FASHIONS OF THE 1890s: A PICTURE SOURCEBOOK, Stella Blum (ed.). (0-486-24534-9)
VICTORIAN FASHIONS AND COSTUMES FROM HARPER’S BAZAR,
1867-1898, Stella Blum. (0-486-22990-4)
WESTERN WORLD COSTUME: AN OUTLINE HISTORY, Carolyn G. Bradley. (0-486-41986-X)
HISTORIC COSTUME IN PICTURES, Braun and Schneider. (0-486-23150-X)
ENGLISH CHILDREN’S COSTUME 1775-1920, Iris Brooke. (0-486-42984-9)
AMERICAN DRESS PATTERN CATALOGS, 1873-1909, Nancy Bryk. (0-486-25654-5)
ENGLISH WOMEN’S CLOTHING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, C. Willett Cunnington. (0-486-26323-1)
FASHION AND WOMEN’S ATTITUDES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, C. Willett Cunnington. (0-486-43190-8)
HISTORY OF UNDERCLOTHES, C. Willett Cunnington & Phyllis Cunnington. (0-486-27124-2)
AMERICAN VICTORIAN COSTUME IN EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS, Priscilla Harris Dalrymple. (0-486-26533-1)
DESIGNS BY ERTÉ; FASHION DRAWINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HARPER’S BAZAR,
Erté. (0-486-23397-9)
ERTÉ’S FASHION DESIGNS, Erté. (0-486-24203-X)
ERTÉ’S THEATRICAL COSTUMES IN FULL COLOR, Erté. (0-486-23813-X)
FRANKLIN SIMON FASHION CATALOG FOR 1923, Franklin Simon & Co. (0-486-27854-9)
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN FASHION, Alison Gernsheim. (0-486-24205-6)
WHAT PEOPLE WORE, Douglas Gorsline. (Available in U.S. only.) (0-486-28162-0)
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FRONTISPIECE: c.1899. The gentleman wears a typical suit trimmed only with a watch fob and flower, along with boots and a felt hat. The lady wears a winged and plumed hat and a dress trimmed with lace, eyelets, flowers, and ribbons. (Hyland, Washington St., Cor. Seventh, Portland, Ore.
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Victorian Fashion in America: 264 Vintage Photographs is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2002.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harris, Kristina.
Victorian fashion in America: 264 vintage photographs, 1855-1910 / Kristina Harris. p. cm.
9780486137896
1. Costume—United States—History—19th century—Pictorial works. 2. Photographs—
Dating. I. Title.
GT610 H37 2001
391’.0022’2–dc21
2001047520
Book design by Carol Belanger Grafton
Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Table of Contents
DOVER BOOKS ON FASHION
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Introduction
Photographs are time machines—giving us a fascinating glimpse into everyday life in the past. They are important documents in the study of fashion, second only to existing garments. (In many ways, photos are superior to existing garments, because they show us exactly how garments were worn.)
Though fashion drawings may display tightly corseted waists, flat bellies, and enormous bustles, photographs show the reality of fashion, which may reveal that tight corsets were not the norm, that women’s bellies bulged, that bustles or hoops were worn smaller than fashion plates would have us believe, and that gloves or hats were not always mandatory. Photos also tell us what a woman’s posture was like in a hoopskirt, what was considered a manly
or ladylike