victorian era clothing

boca · Post by **boca** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:45 am

Whilst searching the web, I came across this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_cu ... umes.shtml

It is a simple dress-up game which shows evolution of vintage apparel from the 1600's - 1800's for both men and women. I thought it was interesting to see interactively how similar the men's apparel of the victorian eras are similar to today. Along with that, the dress-up game for the women's clothing clearly shows how much has changed from the victorian era to today.

Quick factoid from the above link: did you know that the formal coat was invented in the 1870's?

Website · Post by **crfriend** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:19 am

boca wrote:Whilst searching the web, I came across this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_cu ... umes.shtml

That was quite enjoyable; thatks, Boca!

I only managed to botch a couple of the questions, and you're very right how amazingly similar the Victorian-era mens' garb is to what we still suffer with.

In both cases, I thought the Tudor style more attractive.

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:57 pm

Hmm. 1870 - 2006. That's 136 years and all we've lost is the top hat and the waistcoat

The Tudor bloomers looked more comfortable than the Victorian trousers.

Charlie
(somewhat depressed at how slowly men's 'fashion' changes)

skirttron · Post by **skirttron** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:16 pm

Some really good inventions in men's clothing since Victorian times are unstarched collars, zip fasteners and synthetic fabrics. There is nothing worse than to buy a pair of apparent-bargain pants off the sale rack without trying them on, to discover on getting them home that they button instead of zip. It is true, though, that men's clothes are remarkably similar to the way they were then. Pants are better for fighting and manual work which is why they caught on, I guess, plus they are plainer which suits some philosophies.

Since1982 · Post by **Since1982** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:50 pm

I must be stupik....an unstarched collar is an invention??? You take a collar, you don't starch it and you invented something? What? If you have a collar thats not starched and starch it for the first time ever, then you might have invented something, but not starching it is like not jumping off a cliff, it didn't happen if you didnt do it. Am I wrong? Please correct me if I am.

By the way, Stupik is not stupid, Stupik is a Pennsylvania Dutch word for someone who stands around and has a blank look on his/her face.

Skirt Chaser · Post by **Skirt Chaser** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:00 am

Since1982 wrote:I must be stupik....an unstarched collar is an invention??? You take a collar, you don't starch it and you invented something? What? If you have a collar thats not starched and starch it for the first time ever, then you might have invented something, but not starching it is like not jumping off a cliff, it didn't happen if you didnt do it. Am I wrong? Please correct me if I am.

You have got me laughing. At first it does sound like somebody has 'invented' a peanut butter without jelly sandwich. I'm thinking whatever worked to stiffen the cloth instead of starch was the invention part. A collar that needs starch but doesn't get it is just floppy, something had to make the improved version still stand up.

Quiet Mouse

skirttron · Post by **skirttron** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:30 pm

The invention, you guys, was the comfortable collar that is part of the shirt, or at least the irritating type that takes a tie. Starched collars used to come in packs - you got them laundered and then studded them on to your shirts. One of my earliest memories is seeing a pack of these in a drawer at home - a pack that I think my father got from his father. My father was relatively old when I was born - in fact he once told me that in his youth he used a re-usable rubber (in the American sense of the word).

Since1982 · Post by **Since1982** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:44 am

I researched this. 1st there were unstarched loose comfortable collars that men wrapped wide scarf like ties around from around 1750 till 1835, and then some sadist invented starched collars, which by the way were all the fashion among masochists for about 55 years. Then some intelligent person tried a collar without any starch in it. That was popular for about 10 years and then in about 1909 plastic was invented and for the next 15 or so years they went back to stiff uncomfortable plastic collars (the sadists and masochists had to do something to make folks uncomfortable again) And THEN, The Mafia took over the big cities and decided not to wear those sadistic collars and they slowly died (thank GOD) out. It all was absolutely like this...and if it wasn't, it sure should have been. hehehehee. Honest to Abe, most of this is true, although I have taken some literary license to make it extremely readable.

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