the Clothes in the Years of 1800-1900

The clothes in the years of 1800-1900

Fashion (the French mode, and East of the latinmodus, "mode" or "measure"). [1] it is a set of trends in dress (clothes, accessories), lifestyles and ways of behaving, that they mark or (temporarily) changed the conduct of one or more persons. Fashion trends are influenced by many factors: social, economic and political, among others (see globalizaciony Westernization).

During this century there were own frac, the frock coat and pants for men, and silk mantilla the combs to Spanish ladies. After the Napoleonic era (from 1800 to 1820) in which the female silhouette showed a slender silhouette with the waist always high, snug just below the chest, dropping the rest of the garment straight on the body, there was a drastic change with romanticism, which gave way to the corset that gave to the waist hourglass shape and the crinoline which ahuecaba wide skirts reaching its apogee during 1860, causing that the ladies could not walk the arm of her husband or fiancé. In 1870, he was replaced by the bustle that only ahuecaba skirt from behind and that went out of style in 1890, falling since the garment to the floor without any frame, although until 1900 the skirts were a little acampanadas. Between 1820 and 1914 there was a clear distinction between dresses for day, always with long sleeves (although they could be up to the elbow in the summer) in Western feminine attire and closed to the neck, and evening dresses, always short sleeve and very cut.

WOMEN CLOTHING

The design was simple, with very high waist, tied under the chest, unmarked figure, with long until ankles revealing feet. The lantern short sleeves or long type set. Under the dress, made with very fine fabrics like muslin, light cotton petticoats and a kind of bra called to hold the chest area were used.

To ward off the cold the ladies used fine wool coats; one of the most widely used models was a short jacket of the bullfighter type, usually with puffed sleeves and double breasted. At other times the dresses were covered with shawls.

The mobcaps or copings so popular in the eighteenth century white cotton and the early nineteenth used to cover the head inside the home and subsequently used for the service were gradually evolving into the bonnets a wide-brimmed hat that with a loop tied under the chin. The bonnet is confeccionaba in various styles: the cottage bonnet a peasant type cap, made of straw and decorated with simplicity, sun bonnet, wider to protect the face from sunlight, the bonnet drawn, a more elegant and elaborate hat, typical of Victorian ladies city, poke bonnet or cap with a very thin veil covering the face and the elaborate and ornate tall-crowned bonnet, with the highest back and ornately decorated with flowers, ribbons and fabrics.