 Bustles and elaborate drapery on evening dresses of the early 1870s: Detail of "Too Early" by Tissot, 1873 1870s fashion in European and European-influenced clothing is characterized by a gradual return to a narrow silhouette after the full-skirted fashions of the 1850s and 1860s. James Joseph Jacques Tissot (October 15, 1836 – August 8, 1902) was a French painter. ...
(See also List of types of clothing and Clothing terminology) Humans nearly universally wear articles of clothing (also known as dress, garments, attire, or apparel) on the body. ...
Women's fashions
By 1870, fullness in the skirt had moved to the rear, where elaborate draping was held in place by tapes and supported by a bustle. This fashion required an underskirt, which was heavily trimmed with pleats, ruching, and frills. This fashion was short-lived (though the bustle would return again in the mid-1880s), and was succeeded by a tight-fitting silhouette with fullness as low as the knees: the cuirass bodice, a form-fitting, long-waisted, boned bodice that reached below the hips, and the princess sheath dress or polonaise, a "retro" style based on the fashion of the 1770s. A skirt is a tube- or cone-shaped garment which hangs from the waist and covers all or part of the legs. ...
The ladys dress in this 1880s fashion plate is supported by a bustle. ...
Trim or trimming in clothing and home decorating is applied ornament such as gimp, passementerie, ribbon, ruffles, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament. ...
A bodice is an article of clothing for women, covering the body from the neck to the waist. ...
 Day dress of the later 1870s Sleeves of day dresses were narrow throughout the period, with a tendency to flare slightly at the wrist early on.
Evening dresses had low necklines and very short, off-the-shoulder sleeves, and were worn with short gloves. Other characteristic fashions included a velvet ribbon tied high around the neck and trailing behind for evening (the origin of the modern choker necklace). A glove (Middle English from Old English glof) is a type of garment which covers the hand. ...
Velvet is a type of tufted fabric in which the cut threads are very evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it its distinct feel. ...
A ribbon is a thin band of flexible material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily for binding and tying. ...
A choker is a tight fitting necklace, worn high on the neck. ...
A necklace is an article of clothing or jewelry; which is worn around the neck. ...
Hairstyles and headgear In keeping with the vertical emphasis, hair was pulled back at the sides and worn in a high knot or cluster of ringlets, with a fringe (bangs) over the forehead. Smallish hats, some with veils, were perched on top of the head for outdoor wear. Hair with a round cross-section will fall straight, as opposed to curly hair, which has a flat cross-section Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of the skin found only in mammals. ...
Bangs Bangs is a hairstyle in which the front part of the hair hangs down in front of the persons forehead. ...
There are many different styles of hats A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head – a kind of headgear. ...
Veils are articles of clothing, worn almost exclusively by women, which cover some part of the head or face. ...
See also Windsor Castle in Modern Times by Landseer depicts the Queen and the Prince Consort at home in the 1840s. ...
Jane Morris (The Blue Silk Dress) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1868. ...
References Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500-1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0810963175
Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837-1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0870995359
External links History of 1870s bustles
Victorian Women's fashion: 1870s
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