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‘To Render Ladies’ Dresses Incombustible.’
A deadly concern for crinoline wearing ladies, covered in ‘Cassell’s Household Guide’ 1869.
Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert) in fancy dress. 1878.
Silk taffeta dress with velvet ribbon, lace, and rhinestones. 1860s. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Art Museum.
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Cartoon from the Aug 7, 1895 issue of Puck: “The bicycle - The great dress reformer of the nineteenth century!”, 1895 US
Victorian newspapers available online
The British Library has made two million pages of Victorian era newspapers available online.
(Source: brassgoggles.co.uk)
Portrait of the explorer and anthropologist Nikolai Miklukho-Maklai, taken in Queensland, Australia, 1880.
