Victorian dresses continue to captivate the imagination ... They were designed to impress during balls or dinners. Popular in the 1870s and 1880s, bustle dresses featured exaggerated back skirts ...

Clothes were generally hand-made for the wearer, either at home or by dress-makers. A glimpse into an everyday Victorian era wardrobe of the 1870s would reveal an array of floor-length dresses ...

THE DRESS DIARY: Secrets From a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe ... Strasdin illuminates an era in fashion — the 1830s to the 1870s — characterized by dramatic change, the scraps of fabric ...

Real Victorian things, like long articles from the 1870s about the giant tricycles ... the Chrismans are up in the attic playing dress up without thinking about the fact that if anyone were ...

Pioneer Idaho women, though far from the centers of fashion in Paris, Europe and the Eastern United States, managed to be up-to-date in their dress ... The 1870 census reminds us that there ...