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This well-tailored dress (with a separate bodice and skirt) is made of dark red silk satin and cut velvet. With its high neck and long sleev...

This pink and black silk dress with half-sleeves of black lace came from La Samaritaine, a Paris department store. Large department stores w...

This dramatic evening coat from the late Victorian period looks as if it was made by one of the great French couture houses. In fact, it was...

A day dress of printed wool muslin, worn with patterned silk shawl, straw bonnet, kid leather gloves and a folding parasol. Small parasols, ...

The dress of printed wool, on the left, worn with a white embroidered cotton pelerine collar shows the full ‘gigot’ or leg-of-mutton sleeve ...

The pelisse was a type of light overcoat fashionable at this time. It was cut on similar lines to the dress, with a short waistline, long sl...

These three fashionable day dresses show how the bustle replaced the crinoline to create a new shape of skirt in the 1870s: flatter at the f...