Sunday, March 11, 2012

Regency and Victorian Clothing Styles


Regency and Victorian - Women of the 19th century can be divided into two categories. The Regency era in the century after George and Prince Regent of England, more than his father took jobs under George III was mentioned in a mental illness. The Victorian era refers to the time during the reign of Queen Victoria was crowned in 1837. The style of the Victorian era lasted for the rest of the 19 Century.


Women's fashions of the Regency period is characterized by the Empire-style dress, made a high-waisted dress made of lightweight material to classic Greek design. Was from 1825, reduced waist in the direction of the natural waist bodice and stiff, the loss of the softness of the first half of the century. Women began to corsets, tight underwear, which lasted in the years after 1800 bear. By the end of the Regency era of fashion, got an A-line skirts or bell shape with ruffles, puffs, and padding at the hem at a glance, as romantic, or Regency romance is known.


The advent of close-fitting cap and the accentuation of a small waist started a new shift in the skirts. Skirts has a domed shape generated by the pattern of folds, so that the skirt is made of the body. In the mid-1800s widened skirts, and were supported by Petti-coats. Women had to wear several layers of petticoats to add volume to reach. Crinoline were kind of Petti-layer of a rigid, heavy fabric. The cage crinoline create more volume and is characterized by mid-century Victorian fashion with huge skirts, like the movies "Gone With the Wind. "

Later in the century, began to slim skirts. An over-recorded rock and back attracted to an inflated effect to create and draped over the back. This accentuation of the back, highlighted by a crowd. A bustle is a path on the back of a bunch of exaggerated fashion trend increases in proportion to skirts took a large support shelf-like appearance in 1880.


At the end of the 19 Century, stripped skirts down. Covers increases, the top and tapered balloon to the wrist of a so-called leg-like sleeves sheep. The corset fell out of favor, criticized as unhealthy and unnatural, that of the S-curve corset, corset or health, a new silhouette and new look for the Edwardian Age started to be replaced.