19th Century Fashion - How To Tell Different Decades Apart?

[@goose666]

i like that people also used to raid their parents closests for vintage clothes

[@opheliamystery]

Some things never change.

[@cleliaoconnell3705]

I can't do it because I'm extremely skinny compared to my mom... xD

[@oliveranderson7264]

More like their great-grandparents clothes

[@tolyan_lolyan]

Ugh, my parents and relatives threw out all old clothes, the only thing i found is a very 80's purple shorts

[@fabianshedenhelm2986]

Ughh i cant find anything, my mom thrown out all her old clothes because shes too big. My dad only has his leather jacket

[@NancyFrye]

Every time I hear somebody talk about "Victorian" fashion my first response is "what decade?". She was on the throne for 60 years!

[@valeriacapellaro2348]

@Griffith Williams 20th century Elizabethan fashion. I can already imagine future historians being mad at people not specifying. Imagine mixing the 50s and the 00s fashion.

[@ireneultramarine244]

@Griffith Williams "Elizabethan Fashion"

[@hussainvirk8598]

@Griffith Williams I don’t think they will use the name of the queen to define fashion decades anymore cuz they don’t really have any influence on fashion anymore

[@chaiwriter1531]

@@ireneultramarine244 Dang we need to add that in the dictionary- (I mean queen elizabeth the 2nd is like the most iconic sqeual.)

[@woordenhechtster]

@@valeriacapellaro2348 Well, in their defense, Queen Elizabeth II has been wearing the same frock for 3 or 4 decades now. So 20th century Elizabethan fasion indeed spans a few decades xD

[@Ehh97]

"Whew! I finally saved up enough to a afford wire skirt-" "Oh thats out of fashion now." "DAMN IT!!"

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[@anieth]

Karolina, I'm a professional illustrator and have been doing fashion and book illustration for over 40 years. Iteach the human figure and anatomy. Your drawings are absolutely wonderful. You convey the fashion elements very well without fiddling with anything else. You're doing naturally what hundreds of illustrators take years to learn. Actually, it's an unlearning process. But it's a personality trait many of us share to be so self-conscious. :)

[@valjoy1507]

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[@xliax4930]

I would instantly buy these illustrations with some nice sidenotes as a decoration for my flat. I already have poets from the romace era so it would fit perfectly 🥺

[@rosalobo4968]

I love how the Regency era hairstyles were their own version of 'vintage' 🤣 18th Century KZbinr: Recreating classical hairstyle - seen on REAL ROMAN STATUE

[@samuelcarter6645]

lmfaoo exactly it’s so crazy to think about

[@misslady2639]

Damn, KZbin is old XD

[@bluelol4843]

1790s = 0:27 1800s = 2:23 1810s = 2:50 1820s = 3:36 1830s = 4:13 1840s = 5:20 1850s = 5:49 1860s = 7:01 1870s = 8:16 1880s = 9:55 1890s = 11:23 You’re welcome, people.

[@brnnmrggn]

This is so helpful thanks so much!

[@satanswife2546]

This deserves more likes

[@catherine5526]

Thank you :)

[@itsmetwilightgalaxyofficia4755]

Thank you

[@bh2749]

Idk how informed you are on historic men's fashion, but I'd love to see a similar video on that.

[@cleliaoconnell3705]

Me too!

[@rogerc.roberts4705]

I also would like to see a video on men's fashion for the 1800's. I quickly learned that "all frock coats are the same" is not true when I became involved with historic re enactment (1830's and 1880's). Really like your art work, how long did it take to make this video?

[@YiPeaches]

The secret to men's fashion is that it changes at about a tenth of the speed that women's fashion does. Basically men have been wearing essentially the same clothes for the past two hundred years.

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

Men’s fashion did change throughout the ages but it was extremely slow paced and subtle. I’m talking on the scale of ‘young men in the 20s wore their day jackets with the lapels slightly higher than older men’ White tie is still sometimes worn today and hasn’t really changed in the last 200 years. Black tie is still popular and that is largely unchanged over the last 100 years. The rest of the changes are basically a taking the casual fashion of the past and making it today’s ‘formal’ fashion

[@martabagnoli1212]

How else will I vent my rage at Beau Brummel cutting short all the exuberance and fun of men's fashion?

[@hambone.fakenamington]

"And suddenly the butts disappeared!" Well, if that isn't the most depressing thing I've ever heard!

[@Yougaljuboja]

:-D

[@zuzu2669]

Especially for the men back then probably.

[@zuzu2669]

@XxShadowBunnyxX I wonder what the term for 'WHOPPERS' for the men was back then since all boobs looked huge because of the corsets

[@zuzu2669]

@XxShadowBunnyxX 2 hours to take off the boots then the stockings, the entire dress would take 6 hours and the corset would take 60000000 years for a man.

[@moon-cf2vw]

zuzu actually seeing a women’s ankles was enough to get men’s attention.

[@omarianno]

Could you do a similar video with the different clothes for poor and rich people? That would be so interesting, cause this stuff seems to be expensive

[@appleblossom5019]

Maria Anna I too wonder what the poor wore.

[@June071710]

There was no fashion style for the poor, that's a 20th century phenomenon . Some of them, if they were servants/maids in a household, "inherited" their ladies' wardrobe when they changed it. So, poor people were always "out of fashion", so to speak. The middle-class, a.k.a.low-middle bourgeoisie, copy the upper-class, a.k.a. high bourgeoisie and aristocracy, when the latter saw the wannabes coming, they changed their garments again and again.

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

Maria Anna Poor people didn't have fashion, or even own any clothes. A servant would have their uniform (livery, maid's dress, tailcoat etc) which they would wear everyday and maybe one or two day dresses / suits for Sunday church. A video about peasant fashion would look like a dog's breakfast, completely uninteresting because it's just a toned down version of what we see here with crappier fabrics and design, only delayed in its execution by 5 seasons, after which the rich people had already found the next big thing to wear!

[@Sawrattan]

The video would be too complicated because poor rural people dressed according to their local region or province, whereas rich people followed international style. For example in France, there were huge differences between Corsican, Breton and Alsatian peasant women.

[@charliehockett5774]

It's not entirely true that working class people did not have fashion. Though obviously they couldn't afford massive amounts of luxurious fabrics, they usually did mimic the bodice shapes and general cut of more fashionable attire. The rarely bought new clothing, but when they did, they always hung on to the leftover fabric, and they would continually pick their dresses apart and resew them to resemble contemporary fashions. People who were very, very poor could go to a church and be given hand-me-down clothing (usually outdated livery from wealthy households) so even they usually had pretty serviceable, albeit outdated clothing. Furthermore, working class people who were employed in the households of very wealthy people were often given uniforms hat were actually well made, up-to-date and very smart-looking, albeit made with utilitarian fabrics, and without any of the frills and embellishment that the mistress of the house might wear. Remember, the Victorian and Edwardian societies were obsessed with projecting an image of morality, which extended to the appearance of the body. Respectable people were scrubbed clean, immaculately tidy, and 'correctly' styled... and they made sure their servants looked that way, too. Maids and governesses were typically given a plain black, grey, or navy blue dress made from a practical fabric like wool serge or cotton twill, which was well-constructed and cut to the fashionable shape, but lacked any sort of ornamentation. Very high-ranking members of staff might actually have very nice uniforms in silk or fine wool--that's where we get that stereotypical image of the butler in the fine three-piece suit. The look was extremely conservative, but it was also chic and demonstrated the tidiness and quality craftsmanship that the households sought to project. By the mid-19th century, mass-production techniques were getting efficient enough that a lot of common people could actually afford to buy in to some of the more outrageous fashions as well. The cage crinoline of the 1850s was a good (or rather; tragic) example. Prior to the 50s fifties, most servants couldn't afford all the starched petticoats necessary to make big fluffy skirts--but cage crinolines could be mass-produced and they were surprisingly affordable, so some servant women would buy and wear them. The problem was that they still had to WORK, only now they were doing it with massive skirts. Those skirts frequently became entangled in moving parts, or brushing up against stoves and catching fire. Most employers had to actively ban servants from wearing cage crinolines, but the death toll from skirt-related accidents was still staggering--I'm talking thousands or possibly even tens of thousands dying because they were working in fashionable skirts. So actually in some cases, working class women had far better access to fashionable clothing than was good for them.

[@kitkatchild6069]

1830's who hurt you.

[@gracethome6959]

Napoleon

[@annnee6818]

@@gracethome6959 Shit I was gonna do that joke😆😆😆

[@zuzu2669]

Men.

[@jediavatarpotter]

Queen Victoria

[@zimtkind2255]

Haha. I love that decade! Those gigot sleeves really do it for me.

[@wumologia]

This is fascinating. So many people say something along the lines of "look at those ever-changing fashions of our century, it wasn't like that at all in the past! People were more content with what they had." Well, bollocks. :D

[@monmothma3358]

Yeah but these clothes were expensive clothes for the rich Upper Class. Not sure how representative they are.

[@croweater6814]

Its always been changing but it shifted into high gear during the 18th century. The french aristocracy were notorious for changing fashion and the kings of france used changing styles to create the modern fashion industry and boost the french economy by having an effective monopoly on style.

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

Tina Yael Severinovna M. This isn’t really true. Everyone regardless of social class was interested in being fashionable and looking presentable. Rich women would of course cycle through more clothes (and quicker) to remain ahead of the fashion curve, but that doesn’t mean that women in factories and domestic service didn’t dress fashionably. In fact, these women would have a few ‘Sunday best’ outfits to wear to church or on a day out. They wouldn’t buy expensive clothes so they tended to dress in fashion from the previous season. A housemaid in 1912 would still be presentable in a dress from 1910 or 11, but maybe her corset might be a different shape and her dress a different cut to what her richer employer would be wearing.

[@lyreparadox]

@@monmothma3358 It seems like fashions were changing quickly but remember we're talking about changes over a decade - and clothing could be modified piecemeal. Women knew how to sew and mostly sewed their own clothes, they knew how they were constructed - so it was easy to look at a dress and see how you could cut sleeves in the new style, attach them to an older dress and reuse the ribbons and trim. Same dress, new style.

[@akumayoxiruma]

The only difference is that in the 19th century, fast fashion didn't exist yet so clothes were much more expensive. But they also fit perfectly, and since most people knew how to sew, they just changed their garments instead of throwing them away to get new ones. Nowadays, sewing skills are quite uncommon and instead of purchasing durable, well-fitting, high quality clothes - which cost at least a few hundred euros - most people purchase mass produced fast fashion garments which don't fit perfectly, don't last longer than a decade but cost next to nothing.

[@victoriansquirrel]

Ok but this was actually really helpful for my art history class. Whenever I couldn‘t identify the exact decade the painting was made, I just looked at the ladies‘ dresses and made a decision based on that. Obviously not always helpful (what the fuck, historicism?!) but it certainly made a good impression on my teacher and classmates :)

[@marlo.candeea]

Ok so the 1830s were the 1980s of the XIX century.

[@veronica21]

Celeste 😆😆😆😆👏👏👏

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

Celeste @diana's dress

[@Sawrattan]

I love how fashions always go in cycles like this

[@AMiniki]

You are completely right and I’m dying. 🤣 I wonder when it will come back.

[@lunalimi9798]

Miniki Abzurdah The 80s are in right now!

[@inkheart151]

“Crinoline did not exist before 1856” I finally figured out what era Cinderella is from!!!!

[@JasminMiettunen]

When I saw the 1880s bustles I couldn’t help but think about the evil step sisters!

[@kristinaporter2629]

The 1950s? For real though the fashion in Cinderella is a mess

[@misslady2639]

Cinderella: 1850's/60's dress (maybe?), 1950's hairdo Evil stepsisters: 1880's Lady Tremaine: 1890's This is a historical fashion mess

[@jandm4ever716]

Well I mean it’s a fantasy Disney movie with magic and fairy godmothers, I don’t think the historicalness of it really matters 😂

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

@misslady2639 In Cinderella styles of they ladies who greet the Prince before Anastasia and Drusilla are 1860s to me. The step sisters and Lady Tremaine just were incredibly ahead of style! Which is why they look ridiculous lol

[@HyliaBeilschmidt]

Watchmojo narrator sounds emotionless, like she is reading a script about a topic she doesn't care about. As you are full of emotion and convey your personality through your words and your cute drawings! I can't wait for the 20th Century!!!!

[@moemoecannon8630]

Hylia Beilschmidt English is her second language...I think she did GREAT

[@Ryan-pg1tw]

You should not make others look bad

[@valhalla1240]

the watchmojo narrator sounds like an umpa lumpa imitating a millennial on LSD

[@denmarkisbabeychangemymind8079]

@@valhalla1240 that's... the most accurate description I've ever heard

[@MariaThePotterNut]

At least on Ms Mojo, some are better. Like the one that does the Drag Race videos is clearly a fan, she sounds much more engaged with what she's talking about.

[@1607hannah1]

I used to work at a Georgian tea room so we had to wear late 1790s costumes. I don't think there was one female wait staff member who didn't get asked whether she was pregnant, due to the way a lot of the dresses sit (especially if you're curvier). I also had one old lady who wanted to feel my waist to see if I was wearing stays (I wasn't), but she got kind of mad when I didn't let her!

[@julesoxana3630]

Kinda weird of her to ask in the first place

[@bromptondevice7685]

@@julesoxana3630 I used to work in retail and some of the weirdest things I was asked or told came from old ladies.

Hi guyys! So just to let you know this is actually heavily simplified. There's a ton of things I didn't touch on. If you're into fashion history, I highly recommend you get some good literature and dig more into it, as this is just the tip of the iceberg. Also I can't draw 😂 SO DON'T JUDGE OK

[@sampiiieee]

Nonsense on the ‘not being able to draw’ comment, I was really impressed by your drawing skills!

[@06BIBOI]

Actually you can draw pretty damn well !

[@jessierasberry3082]

‘The ultimate fashion history’ channel here on KZbin is pretty good for this stuff too! She is a professor I think? The videos seem to be intended for a class but they are very informative for everyone. :) and free lol!

[@hairpotionsal]

Karolina Żebrowska thanks for the information. 😉

[@mariasja1234]

There's also a very informative channel called Ultimate Fashion History. It's very demonstrative and the channel owner is awesome. She also talks about the historical context and connects it with fashion. It's super interesting if you like this approach! She's a lecturer on fashion history. Recommend you guys if you're intereseted in this subject.

[@astrinymris9953]

I have a personal theory that one reason the Regency muslins disappeared is because increasing coal dust from the Industrial Revolution made it increasingly impractical to wear light-colored gauzy fabrics. Also, I've read that a volcanic eruption caused a worldwide dip in temperatures, spurring the move to heavier fabrics. Just my amateur musings, of course! But it makes a certain sense.

[@oliveranderson7264]

I also feel like the simplicity of the silhouette got boring after a while since pretty much from 1815 onwards, people started incorporating a lot more design and accessories into their outfits. The sudden rise of romanticism (and departure of classicism) in litterature and the ascension of Victoria seem to have caused the official death of regency fashion as well.

[@seventhsheaven]

Additionally, fabrics were starting to become mass produced and cheaper thanks to the industrial revolution, which meant more poofy dresses.

[@KoriEmerson]

There was the second ice age during that time. It got CRAZY COLD.

[@AFrogInTheStars]

Astrin Ymris i had also heard that the reason late 18th/early 19th century fashion was the way it was was because no one wanted to associate themselves with Marie Antoinette and her fashion. She was the person to hate at the time and they basically dressed as opposite as they could.

[@JixieDyeAuthor]

@@KoriEmerson From the second ice age to global warming. God I'd love a little ice right now.

[@cryinglaughingemoji1741]

So the 50's was the decade of full skirt and petticoat, the 70's was the mish-mash of old time fashion, and the 80's was when frizzy hair are all on rage?

[@t.r.1457]

Indy Keningar - Pretty much like the 20th century :-).

[@frostflaggermus]

you know what they all say.... history repeats itself

[@seventhsheaven]

We’re entering the 20’s soon...so maybe the extreme drop waist will come back again. I hope not as it’s not a flattering silhouette for most women, but you never know...

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

klj788986sbb The low waistline was popularly punctuated in the 20s by a low sash, but some women who probably didn’t want the androgynous look (this was definitely a social statement which women today probably don’t need to make) could still keep their waistlines, or at least remove the sash to prevent the hips from looking so low. Evening gowns could be floor length, form fitting and have some curves in them too, which is closer to 1930s styles

[@videosladvd7823]

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[@lauravalentine9488]

You nailed it! I've been studying fashion history for 40 years, and watched for mistakes, but I didn't see any. Your video was excellent.

[@somkeve]

I'm starting to study it! And there's really no mistakes? Wow

[@greatboredompineappl]

I've done extensive research on 19th century fashion and this is easily the most well-done overview video on youtube surrounding the subject. In terms of condensing a lot of (accurate) information into a pretty small time frame this video does it perfectly, bravo.

[@inshirahsheherin1379]

Wait but how do you research fashion history ? I need some help on that 😅😅

[@whyllowfilms]

I love how MOST movies present Jane Austen novels with the older characters wearing something more of their time and the younger characters wearing what was fashionable in the present. It adds so much characterization.

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

I hate that. Middle aged women at the time actually did not stick to fashions of their youth like people do now with more freedom of styles. There is a good video of this in KZbin too but I can’t recall the channel. But maybe you can try to search

[@themelonsoup]

I uesed to work at a historical place that required some workers to dress in vintage clothing, so it was interesting when I started recognising the dresses later in the video to be what my coworkers wore.

[@Monochrome_Nocturne]

Thank you! This has been really helpful for character designing. I hope there's a continuation to this in the form of 20th Century fashion, I'd love to see your take on that. Especially 1940s, because nearly every reference photo I've come across on the internet mixes it up with either 1930s or 1950s like there is no transitional period and it's so frustrating!

[@helenwalter6830]

Try and search WWII fashion and see if that helps. Or look at actresses popular in that decade

[@isabelchan6411]

I saw Elizabeth Bennet in all of those empire waists😂😂

[@mysteriousandforeboding]

Lol me to

[@sotaamaus7484]

Omg i was thinking of her the whole time of the video

[@jgw5491]

One thing that is often forgotten about the empire styles is that, yes, the bodice could be quite low cut but that was mostly for evening wear which was what you generally wore when you got your portrait painted. Day wear was also low cut, but the decolletage was usually filled in with kerchiefs, especially in England. So those Bennett sisters would have looked a lot more modest in most scenes than they did in the movies. Except maybe be Lydia and Kitty. ;-)

[@ellenjohnson2672]

And i saw Jane Eyre 5:32

[@Liitebulb]

Yes I love them in those movies

[@meghanlancaster8747]

Thank you so much Karolina. I am a textile historian and have not really studied costume history (as we call it in the museum world). I have always (I am 70 yo) found the 19th C hella confusing because of the rapidly shifting styles. And I often feel at a loss around my recreationist friends, who all seem to know which sleeve goes with which 5-year period. I usually just stay out of the conversation when it hits 1800. So I really appreciate your succinct and as always humorous clarifications. Also your great illustrations. Really great. Honestly. They are so clear. Mille grazie.

[@StellaMariaGiulia]

Actually I really liked your drawings! And there are no words to express how much I liked this video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

stella Me, too! You certainly know your stuff! So many times when you drew something, I could remember seeing that in a movie of the era!

[@TasteOfChange]

Agreed! This was actually Epic in its simple visual timeline however I can’t imagine the time and effort and study to be able to simply, thus - EPIC!

[@tyrant-den884]

You may think you are extra, but you are not 1830's dresses extra.

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

There needs to be Count of amounts Christi with as extreme styles (the ones I have seen try to tone it down).

[@Pengwing2411]

I love it!! Please do a 20th century one and a 17th century one:3

[@sleesullivan2796]

Yes, I want to see that very much as well. I love historical fashion design. Your drawings are amazing by the way.

[@monse-9576]

Paula Yoongi for Hamilton

[@iiskubella]

I loved watching this and learned so much! I'd love to see an 18th century video and a 20th century video!!

[@anna178]

Yesssss

[@robinchesterfield42]

I would watch the HELL out of those. And send them to my mom too, as she also loved this video. :)

[@curlygabie5878]

Finally a video that explains clearly what i struggled to understand for so long! Thank you so much, keep on making videos like this please!

[@DebbieGarciaa]

I agree, your narration is way better than the watchmojo narrator

[@KoriEmerson]

I feel like after 1950s everything kinda just went to crap .

[@lucase9698]

@@KoriEmerson Nah, fashion lost the ¨classiness¨ after 1950s but each decade after that has its own silhouettes, trends and a defining style.

[@Sawrattan]

In France there was a French Revolutionary fashion of wearing scandalously see-through white clothes... was this mirrored in the Anglo-Saxon world or did they stay more conservative?

definitely more conservative, you can see they often mock French fashion in caricatures from the era

[@THEmightyQUINN777]

They also wet those thin muslin dress to make them more transparent. Hmmmm and now you have JLo and others wearing mesh see through clothes

[@TallisKeeton]

@ Hi :) Theres this scene in the movie "Cranford" - its a movie about a provintial english town in 1842.When Imelda Stauton's charachter and Julie McKenzie's charachter meet before a shop with clothes and McKenzie's charachter is speaking something like - what are they thinking selling these muslin materials frim Paris? do they think that we would like to look like women of revolution? :) I know that muslin is very thin and transparent so I think that is the film which shows exactly what are you talking about.

[@seventhsheaven]

French women would also cut their hair really short and wear a red string around their necks to resemble the victims of the revolution!! It was called a la victime. Pretty gruesome.

[@Wednesdaywoe1975]

@@seventhsheaven Like 80s "heroin chic".

[@anneshirley2095]

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this! This is like taking a mini college course for historical fashion geeks! Can you do one of these a week? I just can't wait for the next one! I do have a question - do these years apply to America, too? I'd imagine that Europe would have been ahead in the fashion game, but are the dates close enough in comparison to American fashion? P.S. I don't think I blinked for the last 13 minutes!

Glad you liked it! I think the overall silhouette stayed the same in Europe and USA, while the decorations, colors and fabrics used varied slightly from country to country.

[@vicomtexdaae3630]

How’s Gilbert ? 😏

[@lucase9698]

Im still waiting for a video like this about 18th or 20th century fashion 😭😭😭 i come back from time to time to watch this video again because its so great.

[@teo7681]

@@lucase9698 me too I discovered her channel recently and I've watched this video 5 times! I hope she makes one for 18th or 20th century

[@catherinepoteat]

Gotta say, I think my favorite eras were from the 1860s to 1890s. Probably because they remind me of pictures of Laura Ingalls Wilder in the 1880s and from the manga and anime Emma: A Victorian Romance, where all the fashion was in the 1880s styles, and then her wedding dress was 1892 style, and something I want to wear for my own wedding.

[@elenaburger8000]

This was a great video and I really loved your drawings! Besides explaining the general trends of skirt shapes, waistlines, etc, I loved how you also went over hairstyles, garment supports, and the popular fabric prints. I think I'll show this video to friends of mine who need a bit of context for when I start ranting to them about historical inaccuracies in movie costumes, for example.

Elena Burger oh yes, ranting about costumes could easily be my full time job 🙏🏻

[@yunamchill9169]

As a writer, I love you for doing this. I'm concentrating on everything happening in 1850 to around 1960, so thanks for telling me how to describe the clothes.

[@theedwardianwriter]

This was so awesome! It’s really cool how you showed the gradual change of silhouettes visually, because I don’t think that’s done so often.

[@nancyomalley9959]

And I loved her 'before pictures' where she gave the girl a frown

[@TheSerialHobbyistGirl]

I don't have to "give the illusion" of a full belly LOL! I'd fit right in the 1880s!

[@faithhand3740]

This was so interesting! Please do 20th century!! Love your videos 💚

[@robinwinter9064]

I am so glad to have discovered your work! I love costume dramas, especially when they at least strive for authenticity. Recently I watched the second season of Gentleman Jack. I knew the 19th century had lots of transitions, and your video clarified them beautifully. Thank you for your scholarship and your playful way of presenting the information. Your drawing skills are terrific.

[@reenougle]

Wow! This is fantastic! I have studied historic fashion all my life (I have trouble watching some costume dramas because they are so inaccurate!) and this is a perfect recap of the 19th century trends. Well done. You sound great too. It would be great to have the 17th to 18th centuries and 20th century.

[@Fardedandshidded]

My fav was the empire era/jane austen era, those were so elegant and pretty!

[@strivingformindfulness2356]

In the mid-90s, when 'Emma' and 'Sense & Sensibility' were popular films, modern versions of Empire-waist dresses were popular for awhile. I had a cute lavender floral, sleeveless, ankle-length, Empire-waist dress, with a darker lavender/purple, short-sleeved, crochet bodice jacket. It was so comfortable!

[@CaladonianQueen]

1870's are my favourite. So frilly! And the short fad for a flatter back at the time looks cool too. Kind of like a Victorian version of the 1910's.

[@cherielynnheins9403]

I also commented that the 1870s were my favorite!... Apparently it's objectively good looking to a lot of people. Also the 1790s is my other big fav as well!

[@JessicaC.39Six]

Please please please please PLEASE do more of these videos they are so informative, beautifully put together and i always use it for references when I'm drawing or sewing. It's so helpful and one of my all time favourite videos across all of KZbin ❤

[@dbseamz]

I can't believe you drew all this with a whiteboard marker, it's amazing!

[@Leto85]

Well, you got me subscribed. You have no idea, but this helped me enormously. Your love for previous centuries fashion is quite contacious. The naration, the drawing, just the whole presentation made this one video a joyride through 19th century fashion. And I really do hope that you will do a follow-up video for the 20th century as well. So much has happend in there that it's my personal favourite, especially when looking at how incredibly different the 1910's are from the 1990's.

[@Character_OS]

"suddenly the butts disappeared." oh nO! :(((( also, thank you for your informative video and pictures on 19th century fashion, it's so great, and I learned so much!

[@veronikaithe702]

I think we need the 20th century video because you are the only person who was able to simply and clearly explain all differences

[@pay1370]

So an 18th century one please :o

pay1370 need to do more research first 😬

[@Sean-hn2vk]

Karolina Żebrowska the 1810s

[@hannablackfire]

@ Sooo... have you done enough research in the past 2,5 years until now? We are still waiting for another awesome video like this! :D ❤️

@@hannablackfire I'm literally working on it so not long now! :D

[@hannablackfire]

@ Really?! I'm hyped, thank you so much! Your content is always on point! :)

[@vanilla_labelle]

i love the 1830s extravegance! i believe it may have been related to the popularity of shakespeare in this period 😊

[@delartrov297]

samee

[@irishrose90]

I've always wondered about this! You did such a great job explaining and those drawings were so good. :D

[@SuperNovaSirius]

Hoi! I was just offered th make the costume for a period piece film and your video has been super helpful to determine what style I need to make. Thank you so much. Wonderful channel.

[@julecaesara482]

1:35 ohhhh I've seen that before! Elisabeth and Jane Bennet wear dresses with this back pattern in Pride and Prejudice (1995)

[@sukerbole2463]

idk why, but it's so nice and kinda comforting to see a fellow-lefthanded person!

[@nay5783]

I'm so glad that evey Jane Austen movie/series tried to be accurate, I never made a reasearch on this subject and still recognized some of the dresses. Thank you so much for all this information, I learned a lot! (and i'm not fluent in english but fully understood you, your pronunciation is awesome) ok, so: were the 1830's the preview of the 1980's???? what the hell???

[@phoebemyring663]

This is such a fantastic visual representation, I thank you greatly on behalf of all visual learners out there 😍😍

[@DanteEDM1]

This showed up in my feed. What fun! Great overview of a very complex century. The drawings are fun as well! Kudos!

thaanks! ♥️

[@beholdmyyoutubehandle]

This video is amazing!!! I love how you show not just year by year/decade by decade, but how you show the transitions between them and how it all evolved slowly. I'm obsessed. I would watch a video like this for any century ever. The illustrations you did are so great as well!!!

[@sergiofcastillo1]

Karolina I loved your video!!! A very good start to historical fashion, your drawings are cute, your sense of humor so much fun, you're left-handed like myself! This also reminds me of a series of pictures I've drawn about the evolution of 19th Century fashion :D Bring us a 20th Century one please!

[@whyllowfilms]

I like how the 1870s basically just had an instance where they brought back old fashion from 40 years ago like how we do in the 2020s. It's funny that people DID do something like that before in fashion long ago.

[@Elizabeth-po1bv]

I don’t want to seem naggy I just was thinking again about how much I love this video and I wanted you to know it is my favorite video on your channel by far and perhaps one of my favorites on KZbin! I rewatch it all the time!

[@princessketamine0]

This is honestly one of my favorite videos of yours!

[@emrypemry6037]

This was so needed to explain to my students! Thank you so much!!!

[@Elusive_Reclusive]

This is SO FASCINATING! I sill think this century was my favorite for fashions, they changed so much, but I love all the silhouettes so much!!

[@danicafernandez5524]

Crinoline is derived from crin which means horsehair. In 1856, the cage crinoline was patented which used steel instead of horsehair. Before that, crinolines did exist. They used horsehair and were somewhat like farthingales. Nevertheless, the new cage crinolines could hold the weight of the dress better. In the later half nineteenth century, the meaning of crinoline got restricted to the light steel hooped crinolines. As it is on Wikipedia, "Petticoats made of horsehair crinoline appeared around 1839, proving so successful that the name 'crinoline' began to refer to supportive petticoats in general, rather than solely to the material". Therefore, crinolines existed before 1856.

[@rhiannonstrickland8943]

This video helped me narrow down my decades.

[@sarahonwheels2125]

you have a really neat impressionistic style of drawing and i very much enjoyed the presentation. :) thanks for sharing this!

[@MildlyRabid]

I keep revisiting this one. One of the best, if not the best, whiteboard explanation video on all of KZbin.

[@charliedelfino2102]

This was great, you're really talented. Could you do something similar for the 1600s please

[@OsloTime]

It would be so incredible if you did a video like this for the 1900s and early 2000s. I'm sure this was very time consuming since you put so much detail, information and creativity into it. Thank you for such a fun watch! You've made me more interested in the Victorian Era throughout all of your videos and watching this today was the icing on the cake! So wonderful! 🥰💫💐

[@InfiniteText]

Great Video!!! This must have taken hours upon hours. The whole time I was thinking about Disney's Cinderella because I think almost every fashion drawing choice was a different decade. The dresses Drizella and Anastasia wore seem to have the big butts, but the dress Cinderella wore made by the mice, and the one by fairy godmother are from different eras, and then even Lady Tremaine seems to wear a different dress, and some of the girls from the ball wore totally different decade styles....which is strange they decided to set it in Victorian times then....or maybe they're trying to say the mice and fairy godmother were fashion game changers...hm..

[@DodiTov]

Good eye! Even funnier? The hairstyles in Cinderella were fairly historically accurate...except Cinderella. Her's was totally 1950s! In fact, the final scenes with her dancing is the french twist, a very avaunt guard style in the 50s.

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

True. but it was before Disney got more accurate w/fashion eras in their animated movies.

[@ANME1rocker]

Dodi Tov I heard that they liked to take inspiration from the era of when they made the movies

[@frostflaggermus]

the mice and fairy were not paying attention to fashion and instead did their own neat thing

[@jaydubbs6123]

I always thought the story was in the 1890's Lady Tremaine's dress looks very 1890's it has the puffy sleeves, "V" shaped bodice, and full skirt with a slight train in the back. Also the rich dark burgundy color is very Victorian as well. Also her hairstyle is in a heart shape, which is sort of like Elizabethan. So she is a mix of two eras, but still very elegantly designed, eventhough she is very scary and evil. LOL!

[@charlottebeaudoin2999]

3 years later, we’re still waiting for the 20th century !

[@niamhohaileagain7748]

I would love it if you did a video on American fashion of the 1800's. Everyone talks about these time periods in terms of British monarchy, all I have to go on for American fashion is Scarlett O'Hara and Westworld, which takes place in the future. How did it differ from England, and how did it differ between the North, South and West? I also always wonder what people wore in their homes. I know as soon as I get home I immediately take off all of my uncomfortable appropriate clothes and put on things that I would never wear outside, or intentionally be photographed in. Do historians know what people wore when no one but their families could see them?

[@BettsiLedesma]

I know this is one of your older videos, but I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed it. You succinctly covered a century of fashion- no easy task. Thank you!

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

I'm kind of wondering why Anne Shirley pines for huge puffy sleeves when she was a kid way before the 1890s :D Her kids were more or less all grown up by WWI.

Apparently Montgomery got all the dates mixed up!

[@luminousmoon86]

CaiusCassiusLonginus, When L.M Montgomery began writing the Anne series, she originally meant to set Anne's childhood (the first novel) in the 1890s. That's pretty clear from her description of both the fashions and various technologies, especially in later books. For instance in the novel Anne's house of Dreams, where she gets married, both Avonlea and her new residence, Glen St. Mary's, both small rural areas, have telephone systems with relatively wide adoption. If you date the book backwards from the book where her children are in WWI, that puts that novel in the 1890's, way too early for telephone adoption in rural areas. She probably actually meant that book to be set in 1910 or so. I think that during and after the war, she wanted to write a book that addressed the war, with her Anne of Green Gables characters. So she decided to have Anne's kids be part of that generation, even though it retconned her time settings for the previous novels. If she had kept her original timeline, Anne's kids would have still been children when the war was happening, and too young to fight or even be much aware of what was going on.

[@brontewcat]

Kate Wood. That makes sense. I always had the sense Anne of Green Gables was set very late in the 19th century.

[@mollygrace3068]

All I remember about that was that when she was a kid she wanted the puffy sleeves, but by the time she actually got them as a teenager, they were already out of fashion.

[@lucyjenkins1341]

CaiusCassiusLonginus in the show Anne with an E she is a kid in the 1890s so it would make sense then i guess lol

[@kazza6078]

Watching this AGAIN because it's brilliant, I would love to see this video for any century!! I loved the way you explained/drew it all!

[@Becca-cs5cb]

This was really well done!

[@izzylacroix4131]

You have no idea how helpful this channel is to historical-fiction writers

[@Missrosebud29]

You are so talented! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. This was so helpful and insightful!

[@starchan2036]

I can't get over how well made this is, even setting aside the super interesting information and the clear script. Incredible work, thank you so much for taking all the time and effort to make it, and thank you so much for sharing it with us!

[@gdhse3]

You have a beautiful voice and beautiful drawings keep up the great work we love to watch!

[@evae6129]

I’m going to use this video for my 18-19th century fashion timeline I’m making. It’s hard to find good sources (and I’m lazy with citations) but you have an entire outline in one video, which is awesome! Now all I have to do for 19th century is get all of the tiny details that aren’t necessary, but I want because I’m a perfectionist.

[@isabella9025]

I'd love if you talked about how class affected this and how people adapted to style changes. As I understand it, women didn't own many dresses, and altered them over buying new ones. But when styles changed a lot, did they buy new dresses, or did they alter old ones? Was this more everyday or evening? What was the closet like of someone back then? Also, I love and appreciate that you mentioned changes is stays and corsets. I'm always so interested in undergarments!

[@ginadelfina5887]

Thanks for the great video! 19th c. are the fashion decades I love to study the most. I always have trouble telling the two bustle periods apart, so your 4 ways to tell them apart are really helpful to me. I'd like to add something about the crinolines. The cage crinoline (the metal cage) was introduced in 1856 like you said. But the word crinoline was in use before that. It originally meant a stiff type of fabric made from "crin" (French for horsehair - actually I know you do mention horsehair in the 1830s section) and "lin" (French for linen) woven together to create a stiff fabric used to make petticoats.

[@lovethesunnyD]

Great info and drawing, but I wish you would pause just a moment after the finished drawing so we could see it before you erase.

[@DezMarivette]

This is among my favorites from this channel. I would love to see these for other centuries as well!!

[@AlexYorim]

Will there be a topic about Polish folk costumes and Polish influences in fashion?

[@irenemontesinos5389]

So much knowledge in 13:29 minutes. Thank you.

[@itsafab]

Loved watching you draw 🖤💕

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

Karolina draws really well. I mean,I realize she was just doing sketches but I imagine if she really had the time she could really do a great rendering of a dress from those eras..!

[@samirasuricata7768]

I love how accurate your videos are and how much effort you put into them (the drawings are absolutely awesome! 😍👍) Wonderful how you live your passion, teach others about it and explain it to all other history lovers better than any history teacher! Greetings from Germany 👋❤️

[@cherigreen4471]

You are too a very good artist, just modest! Great job on your video!

[@amberbaker4842]

Someone on the historybounding group said that you were entertainment not educational. Anyone who thinks that needs to watch these videos! Learn something new in every video❤❤

[@joshchandler8934]

The 1830’s really thought they did something

[@SofiaLuckyCat]

I absolutely adore how you draw all this fashion! It's even more amazing how you're doing this on a whiteboard, it's simplistic and still considerably detailed.

[@appleblossom5019]

You are an amazing artist - thank you!

[@yourmajesty3569]

Holy shiznit this was crazy informative in a broad stroke of fashion evolution!! I'm not studying for a test, so the particulars aren't important. But the journey this takes is wonnnderfulll. Thankyou for the enlightenment!!

[@KelseytheLetteredDandy]

Mispronounced words -Maybe "coiffure", but I can't pronounce it either! -some other american viewers may say you've mispronounced "patent", but if I remember correctly, you are pronouncing the British way and this doesn't count -"motif" - the "i" should be pronounced like the "ee" in "teeth" -"bodice" the "o" should be pronounced like short o sound, such as in "body" and not the long "o" sound such as in "grow" -some Americans may also say you are mispronouncing "era", but it can be pronounced with both long or short "e" sound -some Americans may also say you are mispronouncing "renaissance", but people across America, Europe, and the British Isles pronounce it many different ways so it doesn't count 3-4 mispronounced words in a 13 minute video that I know probably took hours to make? Girl don't beat yourself up about it! This is great. I am a teacher/tutor and every non-native speaker of English that I meet is self-conscious about their English, but just like you, they are very hard workers who know their stuff. I want to just shake y'all and tell you how great you are and that you speak and write better than most native speakers because native speakers don't care and you care so much! It makes me so happy to see language learners who care, but you put unnecessary pressure on yourself!

[@meowmeow5591]

Kelsey Burroughs "dont beat yourself up about it" but here's a long ass unwarranted breakdown of everything you said wrong, by American standards....even though you're not American or talking about America.

[@KelseytheLetteredDandy]

Read the first line of Karolina's description. I was playing along.

[@HopeGardner3amed]

Which house are you (I am a raven)

[@clod8]

Don’t forget “Empire”; it’s pronounced the French way, ahmpeer; rhymes with vampire. If you want to stick to English, it’s called the Regency period.

[@rosiefay7283]

Karolina -- thank you for your video. I would like to offer one further correction because it also affects the spelling of the written word. 4:54 We don't say "coronated" -- monarchs are "crowned".

[@carmenm.4091]

You should make this into a book. It’s delightful! I studied the history of fashion when I was a student on the fashion academy in Amsterdam long ago. Your explanation is short and clear and the illustrations are so right and cute. I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

[@sampiiieee]

Loved it! Please do a 20th century one! :D

[@orlandom394]

Want more of these videos for every century, just stumbled onto your channel, not really the biggest fan of fashion but I love history and just seeing how much time has changed really fascinates me