100 Years of Fashionable Womenswear: 1830s – 1930s | V&A

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  @starababa1985 · 3 years ago

  These dresses may have survived precisely because they were so tiny and therefore difficult to be handed down or made over.  The same is true of old sample shoes which were too small to be worn by most women.

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  @madisonmontgomery03 · 3 years ago

  I love this subject matter, I'd love a whole series of these videos examining the different dresses in the V&A collection

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  @neatodude3339 · 3 years ago

  I never realized edwardian gowns/shirts were made with so many little pieces of different types of lace!

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• CH

  @chocolatbownie35 · 3 years ago

  the yellow dress is just GORGEOUS

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  @FortheloveofJesus1andonly · 1 year ago

  I've never heard of a period in time anywhere that doesn't have a "difficult history."

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• TA

  @taytertot991 · 3 years ago

  I love the description of “frothy” for the Edwardian dress

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• EJ

  @ejj26-jj · 3 years ago

  With that first dress, the print actually looks quite modern up close

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  @phranerphamily · 3 years ago

  You could make this a weekly series and I would watch as I'm sure others would as well. This was fascinating and the curator was interesting and lovely to listen to.

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  @corinnetaylor2565 · 3 years ago

  Ms. Allen-Johnstone is so articulate - informative, clear, interesting. Well done!

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  @roxannlegg750 · 2 years ago

  I also cant help but notice the  ascending height of the dresses - all has very small waists, but the overall height and upper body size increased too.  Most people dont know that by the 1830' to 1850's or so, people were the shortest they had been since the Tudor period, and only matched in the dark ages (post Roman occupation but pre 1066).  On overage by the tudor and early to mid 1600's, this period saw the average height to be similar of the early 20th C, but gradually declining to the point where by the 1830's, people were the shortest they had ever been.  Heights began to increase int he late Victorian and Edwardian period, and continued thru to modern day.   Its a stark contrast here with these three dresses andd altho they are isolated examples, this does represent a known trend in human variability over the centuries.

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  @carag2567 · 3 years ago

  That Edwardian day dress is so beautiful I very nearly cried.

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  @blackorchid0000 · 3 years ago

  Wow dress number 2 is a dream!

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