MENU - Victorian London - Clothing and Fashions

Clothing and Fashions

see also Professions - Clothing

see also Weather - Mud

see also Words - Names for clothing

§ Accessories

— how to take care of furs, feathers and wool

— how to take care of jewellery

— how to clean materials

— tie-pins and swells

§ Children's Clothing

— child's clothing, boys, upper class, 1859 (Punch)

— child's clothing 1850s/60s

— 'Clothing for Infants'

§ Coats and Overgarments

— coats, list of

— gents outfits: advert from 1899

— Zouave jacket

§ Clothing and Health

— clothing and health

§ Colours

— arsenic as colouring

— colours: black

§ Dresses

— barège dresses

— bloomerism and rational dress

— pockets in women's clothes

— sleeves (1890)

§ Examples, Arranged by Decade

§ Hair and Facial Hair

— beards and moustaches

— porter's knot

§ Hats

— hats (men) (1) (2)

— hats (women) (1) (2) (3)

— hats in 1850s/1860s

— hats, "Muller-cut-downs"

— hats amongst the poor

— hats of East End women

— ostrich feathers, popularity of

— paper caps, worn by artisans

§ Men's Clothing

— an American view

— in the City

§ Secondhand Clothes

— second-hand

§ Shirts, Collars and Ties

§ Shoes and Footwear

— 'gutta-percha for mending shoes'

— shoes and boots

§ Skirts and Trousers

— bloomerism and rational dress

— skirts, length of

— skirts, tight

— trousers, 1857

§ Social Status and Profession

— clerks' clothing

— clothing of the poor/working class

— dress of costermongers

— dress and social status

— dressing appropriately

— 'shabby genteel'

— the 'swell'

— 'young bloods'

§ Underclothing and Nightclothes

— 'confinement belts'

— 'A Trousseau for £50'

— 'underclothing'