Keywords: 1880s fashion
Item 105516
Taffeta and velvet bustle dress ensemble, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1880
Location: Newcastle
Media: silk, cotton
This record contains 11 images.
Item 105599
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1880
Media: wool, silk, metal
This record contains 8 images.
Exhibit
The mainspring of fashion is the process whereby members of one class imitate the styles of another, who in turn are driven to ever new expedients of fashionable change.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Mourning Fashions
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring 18th and 19th century mourning jewelry and fashions.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 4 of 4
"In the late 1880s, the bustle simplified in shape and disappeared by 1890. As fashions moved towards the next century, skirts lost the over layers…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4
"… Society Between the mid-1870s and early 1880s, the bulky overskirt 'polonaise' styling gave way to the unusually slim silhouette called cuirasse…"
