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The Latest Fashion: An 1840s Dress Tells All
Around 1840, there was a fashion reaction after women grew tired of the huge sleeves, broad shoulders, big bonnets, and sometimes outlandish hairstyles of the previous decade. It was time for a change. An 1840s silk dress in Bartow-Pell’s collection … Continue reading
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Tagged 1840s accessories, 1840s corsets, 1840s dress construction, 1840s dresses, 1840s fashion, 1840s fashion plates, 1840s hairstyles, Catharine Beecher, Chemisettes, corset busks, Dress trimmings in the 1840s, Eliza Leslie, Extreme corsets 1840s, Fawn-colored silk, French influence on 1840s American fashions, Historical influences on 1840s fashion
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