If asked to draw a sketch of the American or European woman of
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If asked to draw a sketch of the American or European woman of fashion at the beginning of the 1820s most of us would think of the recent Jane Austen movies and draw a woman whose lithe figure resembled an exclamation point clad in a simple high waisted dress of thin muslin with short puffed sleeves If asked to draw the silhouette of a woman of the latter half of the 1840s the sketch would resemble a dinner bell The fashions of the transitory period 1825 to 1840 are often very vague in the mind s eye That fifteen year period is perhaps the least studied era of Western women s clothing of the last three hundred years Although largely overlooked however important styles came and went within that period and changes occurred which effected fashion for decades Image Search Content inclusion

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If asked to draw a sketch of the American or European woman of fashion at the beginning of the 1820s most of us would think of the recent Jane Austen movies and draw a woman whose lithe figure resembled an exclamation point clad in a simple high waisted dress of thin muslin with short puffed sleeves If asked to draw the silhouette of a woman of the latter half of the 1840s the sketch would resemble a dinner bell The fashions of the transitory period 1825 to 1840 are often very vague in the mind s eye That fifteen year period is perhaps the least studied era of Western women s clothing of the last three hundred years Although largely overlooked however important styles came and went within that period and changes occurred which effected fashion for decades Image Search Content inclusion

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century build straggling along the waterfront in a desultory fashion you are practically driving on the beach and it has a rather tatty end of the world atmosphere Porto Kayio looking north towards the castle at Achilio in the mid 1990s and the same scene in the late 1820s from the French artist Baccuet showing members of the