In the 1830s, men wore dark coats, light trousers, and dark cravats for daywear. Women's sleeves reached their ultimate width in the gigot sleeve. Here, the boys wear buff-colored belted knee-length tunics with yokes and full sleeves over trousers. The girls wear white dresses with colored aprons. The Family of Dr. Josef August Eltz, Austria, 1835.

1830s fashion in European and European-influenced clothing is characterized by an emphasis on breadth, initially at the shoulder and later in the hips, in contrast to the narrower silhouettes that had predominated between 1800 and the 1820s. It has been suggested that folding clothes be merged into this article or section. ...

Women's costume featured larger sleeves than were worn in any period before or since, which were accompanied by elaborate hairstyles and large hats.

Women's fashions

1833 Fashion Plate: evening dress (left) and two day dresses. The lady on the right wears a pelerine.

Brocade satin dress from Gazette des Salons

This portrait shows the pleated panels of fabric that trim the gown around the bust and shoulders, and the method of gathering fullness in the large sleeves. 1832.

Overview

In the 1830s, fashionable women's clothing styles had distinctive large "leg of mutton" or "gigot" sleeves, above large full conical skirts, ideally with a narrow, low waist between (achieved through corseting). The bulkiness of women's garments both above and below the waist was intended to make the waist look smaller than it was — this was the final repudiation of any last lingering aesthetic influences of the Empire silhouette of ca. 1795-1825. Heavy stiff fabrics such as brocades came back into style, and many 18th-century gowns were brought down from attics and cut up into new garments. The combination of sloping shoulders and sleeves which were very large over most of the arm (but narrowing to a small cuff at the wrist) is quite distinctive to the day dresses of the 1830s. Events and Trends Electromagnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday Dutch-speaking farmers known as Voortrekkers emigrate northwards from the Cape Colony Croquet invented in Ireland Railroad construction begins in earnest in the United States Egba refugees fleeing the Yoruba civil wars found the city of Abeokuta in south-west Nigeria... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... Sleeve (O. Eng. ... It has been suggested that Waist cincher be merged into this article or section. ... An example of Classical attire 1811 dance dress with empire silhouette An analysis of clothing pressure points (shown in red) of ca. ... Brocade can stands for: thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven. ...

Pelerines, or lace coverings draped over the shoulders, were popular (one of several devices, along with full upper-arm sleeves and wide necklines, to emphasize the shoulders and their width).

The ca. 1835 fashion plate (right) shows both male and female styles (note that it may not be obvious on first glance that the woman has a small waist, because of her large sleeves).

Gowns

The fashionable feminine figure, with its sloping shoulders, rounded bust, narrow waist and full hips, was emphasized in various ways with the cut and trim of gowns. To about 1835, the small waist was accentuated with a wide belt (a fashion continuing from the 1820s). Later the waist and midriff were unbelted but cut close to the body, and the bodice began to taper to a small point at the front waist. The fashionable corset now had gores to individually cup the breasts, and the bodice was styled to emphasize this shape. Gore may refer to: Kensington Gore, English theatre slang for stage blood The depiction of graphic violence in film, TV and theatre, especially the realistic depiction of serious physical injuries involving blood, flesh and bone matter (see splatter film) A triangular segment: Gore (road), a triangular point of land often... A bodice is an article of clothing for women, covering the body from the neck to the waist. ...

Evening dresses had very wide necklines and short, puffed sleeves reaching to the elbow from a dropped shoulder, and were worn with mid-length gloves. The width at the shoulder was often emphasized by gathered or pleated panels of fabric arranged horizontally over the bust and around the shoulders. A glove (Middle English from Old English glof) is a type of garment which covers the hand. ...

Day dresses generally had high necklines, and shoulder width was emphasized with pelerines or wide collars that rested on the gigot sleeves. Summer afternoon dresses might have wide, low necklines similar to evening dresses, but with long sleeves. Skirts were pleated into the waistband of the bodice, and held out with starched petticoats of linen or cotton. Madame de Pompadour in an elaborately embroidered gown with matching petticoat, 1760s A petticoat or underskirt is an article of clothing for women; specifically an undergarment to be worn under a skirt, dress or saree. ...

Around 1835, the fashionable skirt-length for middle- and upper-class women's clothes dropped from ankle-length to floor-length.

Outerwear

Riding habits consisted of a high-necked, tight-waisted jacket with the fashionable dropped shoulder and huge gigot sleeves, worn over a tall-collared shirt or chemisette, with a long matching petticoat or skirt. Tall top hats with veils were worn. Riding habits of the 1830s A riding habit is womens clothing for horseback riding. ... Chemissettes from Godeys Ladys Book 1850. ...

Shawls were worn with short-sleeved evening gowns early in the decade, but they were not suited to the wide gigot sleeves of the mid 1830s. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

For evening, especially in very cold climates, voluminous coats like opera coats with fur trim or fur linings were worn with the evening gown. An opera coat is an ankle- or floor-length womens loose-fitting coat of luxurious fabric such as velvet, brocade or satin, to be worn over an evening gown. ...

Style gallery 1830-1835

1 - 1830	2 - 1831 Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (469x647, 27 KB) Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter Title: en:Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden de:Sophie Wilhelmine von Holstein-Gottorp, Markgräfin und später Großherzogin Sophie von Baden, Year: 1831 Oil on canvas File links The following pages...	3 - 1831	4 - 1831-32
5 - 1832	6 - 1834	7 - 1834	8 - 1835

1. Fashion plate from Mercure des Salons
2. Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden wears a white gown that just skims her ankles and a tawny-colored shawl. Her flat shoes have ribbon laces and square toes. 1831.
3. Therese von Schenk wears long sheer oversleeves over short puffed sleeves and an elaborate fabric-covered hat with plumes, 1831.
4. Mrs. Edward Kellogg wears the frilled indoor day cap of a married woman with a wide ribbon bow tied under her chin. Her simple dark gown has gigot sleeves and a modestly broad neckline, filled in with a ruffed chemisette.
5. Fashion plate from Wiener Moden, in which anatomical accuracy gives way to the desire to present a trendy fashion silhouette. The afternoon dress has a wide, low neckline and long sleeves.
6. German fashion of 1834 with echoes of the Renaissance: a wide-necked black gown features a tight belt at the raised waistline. Hair is worn in elaborate curls and knots.
7. Caroline, Countess of Holnstein wears her hair severely parted in the center front and across the top of her head. Her long hair is braided, and the braids are looped over either ear and wound into a knot at the crown of her head. She wears a white gown with a wide belt and gathers at the front to emphasise the bust under a pink satin coat with a fur collar and fur trim. German, 1834.
8. Fashion plate from Wiener Zeitschrift

Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (469x647, 27 KB) Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter Title: en:Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden de:Sophie Wilhelmine von Holstein-Gottorp, Markgräfin und später Großherzogin Sophie von Baden, Year: 1831 Oil on canvas File links The following pages... Chemissettes from Godeys Ladys Book 1850. ... Raphael was famous for depicting illustrious figures of the Classical past with the features of his Renaissance contemporaries. ...

Style gallery 1835-1839

1 - 1830s	2 - 1835	3 - 1834-36 Image File history File links Kane_Mrs_Clench. ...	4 - 1837
5 -1837	6 - 1837	7 - 1838

1. 1830s Riding habits have fashionable full sleeves.
2. Marie Lafont-Porcher's hair is styled in a high knot with wide side-curls; her gauzy gown has a neck ruff and a wide collar, and she wears a fur piece similar to that in the Gazette des Salons fashion plate above, 1835.
3. Conservative, middle-class fashion: Eliza Clarke Cory Clench wears a white cap with a large striped ribbon bow that contrasts with her bright green dress. Canada, 1834-36.
4. Viennese fashion plate for February 1837 shows front and back views of the newly fashionable dangling clusters of curls on the sides worn with an ornate knot of hair at the crown. A headband is worn for evening. The waist is still defined by a wide belt, but it sits lower on the body.
5. By 1837, fullness was dropping from just off the shoulder to the middle of the arm. The bonnet is smaller than those worn earlier in the decade, and black lace mitts (fingerless gloves) are worn with the white day dress. Hair is worn in wide clusters of short sausage curls. French.
6. Mathilde, Gräfin Lynar wears a brown velvet gown with snug shoulders and lower sleeves, and fullness at the middle of the arm. The waist is darted to fit and comes to a small point in front. Hair is smoothed above the ears and wound into a braided crown. German, 1837.
7. Adélaide d'Orléans wears a heavily decorated straw bonnet over a frilled cap, 1838.

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Caricature gallery

1 - 1830

1. "Waist and Extravagance", ca. 1830 fashion satire

Men's fashion

Men's fashion silhouette of 1837 shows broad shoulders and a narrow waist.

Overview

In this period, men's fashion plates continue to show an ideal silhouette with broad shoulders, and a narrow waist.

Shirts and cravats

Shirts of linen or cotton featured tall standing collars, occasionally turned down, and were worn with wide cravats tied in a soft bow; dark cravats were popular for day wear. Business shirt A shirt is a piece of clothing for the trunk of the body. ... William Shakespeare in a sheer linen collar of the early 17th century, a direct ancestor of the modern shirt collar. ...

Coats and waistcoats

Frock coats (in French redingotes) increasingly replaced tail coats for informal day wear, and might be double-breasted. Shoulder emphasis fell lower on the arm; shoulders were sloped and puffed sleeve heads gradually shrank and then disappeared. Waistcoats or vests were single- or double-breasted, with shawl or notched collars. Corporal in a nine-button frock coat, 1862 A frock coat is a mens coat introduced in the early nineteenth century characterized by knee-length skirts all around, in contrast to tail coats and cutaways. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A traditional waistcoat, to be worn with a two-piece suit or separate jacket and trousers A waistcoat (called a vest in Canada and the US) is a type of garment. ...

A cutaway morning coat was worn with light trousers for any formal daytime occasion; evening dress called for a dark tail coat and trousers. A morning coat is a mans coat worn as the principal item in morning dress. ... Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with Commonwealth Prime Ministers, in the 1950s. ...

Trousers

Full-length trousers began to have the modern fly-front closure, replacing the earlier fall-front. Breeches remained a requirement for formal functions at the British court (as they would be throughout the century). Breeches continued to be worn for horseback riding and other country pursuits, especially in Britain, with tall fitted boots. The origin of modern mens trousers: a sans-culotte by Louis-Léopold Boilly. ...

Outerwear

Cloaks were worn with evening wear. Overcoats with wide sleeves were worn with day wear. A cloak is a type of loose garment that is worn over indoor clothing and serves the same purpose as an overcoat – it protects the wearer from the cold, rain or wind for example, or it may form part of a fashionable outfit or uniform. ... An overcoat is a long coat worn over other clothing. ...

Hats and hairstyles

The crowns of tall hats were less curvy than in the previous period. Hair was generally parted to one side. Curled hair and sideburns remained fashionable, along with moustaches. Duke Ellington wearing a top hat. ...

Style gallery

1 - 1830s French dandies from the 1830s. ...	2 - 1832	3 - 1833	4 - 1834
5 - 1838-40

1. 1830s fashion plate shows the small, high waist that was the ideal of French fashion in the 1830s. Frock coat (left) and morning coat (right).
2. Frederik Hansen Sødring wears a brocade waistcoat with a high black velvet shawl collar. The front flap of his fall-front trousers can be seen clearly in this 1832 portrait.
3. Antoine Julien Meffre-Rouzan of New Orleans painted in Paris, 1833, in evening wear. The puffs at the shoulder of his coat are smaller than those worn in the 1820s, and his waistcoat has a slight point at the front waist.
4. 1834 portrait of Davy Crockett shows the fashionable dark cravat worn with a turn-over collar.
5. A gentleman of the Wilkes Family, 1838-40, wears a dark cravat. His tall coat collar is notched and spreads onto his shoulders. The sleeve has just a hint of fullness at the sleeve head.

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Children's fashion

In this period, small boys wore sashed tunics over trousers, sometimes with a round-collared shirt underneath. (In Sketches by Boz, 1836, Charles Dickens described the earlier skeleton suit as "...one of those straight blue cloth cases in which small boys used to be confined, before belts and tunics had come in...." [emphasis added]). Older boys wore short jackets and trousers with round-collared shirts. Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. ... Dickens redirects here. ...

Girls wore simplified versions of women's fashion.

Spanish boy, 1830	German boy, 1830	Austrian boy and girl, 1834	Germany, 1836
Germany, 1837

See also

• Victorian fashion

Windsor Castle in Modern Times by Landseer depicts the Queen and the Prince Consort at home in the 1840s. ...

References

Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500-1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6317-5

Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837-1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

Tozer, Jane and Sarah Levitt, Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770-1870, Laura Ashley Press, ISBN 0-9508913-0-4

External links

• The Romantic Era: Fashions 1825-1845
• 1840s Men's Fashions - circa 1840 Men's Fashion Photos (Daguerreotypes) with Annotations
• Men's fashion plates of the 1830s at Victoriana.com