How Did Clothes Make The Dress Of The Victorian Era

The information covered in this essay will be about the Victorian era fashion, how and who started or made this style of costume. Different types of clothes were used by women and men at that time for different events and activities. This essay will also explain how people during that Era used their clothes and what the layers of women’s dresses were called, the materials used to make the dresses at that time and, also, during mourning what types of dresses and clothing they had to use.

Queen Victoria ruled England between 1830 to the end of the 20th century, this time is known as the Victorian Era. She was the first English monarch to see that her reign was given to another person while she was still living. There were vast improvements in

The shoulder of the dress should be a little less sloping and the waist has to be pointed. In the early 1850 bodices had a Basque giving a jacket effect to the women’s attire. During the late 1850s the princess’s dress was made and cut without a waist seam, but after the 1860s the waist of the dress has been changed to round and was slightly raised, the material used to make this dress was silk, velvet or cloth. It was made that way so that any seaming and decoration stitched into the part of the waist dress still emphasized the women’s small waist. During this time the Garibaldi family was an important person in England; he had visited England in 1863 and had given an enormous appeal to anything that has been named after him. Garibaldi’s blouse or shirt had been worn for the day during the 1860s. Scarlet merino trimmed with black braid was used and placed in place of where a bodice should be. It had epaulettes, full or plain sleeves, and usually overhung the skirt which was confined by a belt. This was when the blouse and skirt was introduced and had lasted with different popularity for more than a hundred years. The Garibaldi out wear jacket was short, designed and had been made of scarlet cashmere with military braiding. A Garibaldi sleeve of thin material was full and gathered into a band at the wrist that could have been worn for morning or afternoon occasions during the Victorian