A Closer Look: An Overview of 19th Century Fashion | Cultured Elegance

A Closer Look: An Overview of 19th Century Fashion | Cultured Elegance
In this video, we will discuss an overview of 19th century fashion and how to tell the difference between the different decades. We’ll discuss the 1800s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s. We cover the regency fashions, civil war fashions, gilded age fashions, and the belle epoque fashions and dresses!
Tell me your favorite decade in the comments down below!
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[@teddieryan2288]

I am 85yrs old. My grandmother used to describe to me her truseau in the 1880s. Her mother and aunt, who were excellent seamstresses, made the pieces from pictures of dresses from Paris. Lots of silks, velvets, appliqués and laces. The light in her eyes when she described this was priceless. She had a 19” waist when she married, and wore a corset that laced until she died. I often had to help her get into it in the morning. Thanks for the pictures.

[@0megaVon]

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing ❤

[@soheesweetheart]

Being a fashion lover and a lover of fashion history this felt like a game of knowledge for me lol. I have an appreciation for style elements in every period of the 19th century ( same for other centuries) but late 1850’s - 1860s, the entire bustle period, and the early 1890’s are my personal favorites. ( I would like to add though, that the multi layering of petticoats during the 1850s, were before the invention of the crinoline in 1856. In which multi layering of petticoats weren’t needed, being that the crinoline provided most of the flare, and made the garments much lighter) this video was most enjoyable and calming to watch.

[@dimplesd8931]

I love Empire waist dresses. So beautiful, elegant and simple. It works for everybody type. I guess that’s why you still see the style worn today.

[@nobodyqwertyu]

Yes, very comfortable and pretty.

[@myriamickx7969]

What I can't get around, though, is how did those women keep warm in these light muslin dresses? Even wealthy people couldn't heat their houses very much, let's be serious.

[@nobodyqwertyu]

@@myriamickx7969 they wore thicker dresses in the winter.

[@LaHayeSaint]

I would have loved to have dressed up in all those beautiful dresses. But you needed money and an army of servants to keep them clean. A drawback is they could encourage vanity. But I would still want to wear them.

[@DebbieRenee-te2jd]

They would encourage such a wonderful sense of femininity and allow a woman to feel pretty!

[@LaHayeSaint]

@@DebbieRenee-te2jd Debbie -- I agree with you. But if you were lucky enough to be born into the right class, I would feel obliged not to be solely self-centred but also to inject time, energy and money into the local community, eg, supporting a boarding house for destitute women (not a workhouse).

[@magiv4205]

​@@LaHayeSaintAre you insinuating that poor people couldn't afford to not be selfish? Lmao. If anything, poor people NEEDED to be selfless because they had to take care of eachother and their community. This is still often the case today. And don't forget big families. Being selfish wouldn't get anyone anywhere.

[@LaHayeSaint]

@@magiv4205 Magiv -- Use of double negatives is always confusing. Best to avoid them. I have not insinuated anything and neither did I refer to poor people of the period. I don't understand where this response came from?

[@magiv4205]

@@LaHayeSaint Honestly? I think I misread the second sentence substituting the "I" for "you" in my head. Sorry I kind of went off on you. It's a stereotype that's still annoyingly common unfortunately, but that was not at all what you were saying. My bad!

[@katrinajacksonmiller9038]

I love Victorian fashion! The dresses are so pretty!

[@CulturedElegance]

They are!

[@gemstonesparkle7915]

Another wonderful video! I just wish film directors to have a look on these kind of videos before taking decisions based on their modern personal preferences. 😅

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you so much!! I agree!!!

[@glendagarcia6194]

Very interesting video. It details, at least to me, that you’d have to be wealthy, or at least upper middle class, to wear most of these fashions since the fabrics were quite luxurious. I didn’t have a favorite decade but I found the fashions almost as whimsical as they are today.

[@tulabead]

It would be interesting to see other social economic classes

[@LupitaPolit-ng5pf]

So elegance details from diferents decadesbut ist really beautiful true thank you and great merci boucoup magnifique style nice

[@mishynaofficial]

My favourite decades are 1800s and 1810s. I love the loose flowy dresses of the 1800s, the material allows them to drape so beautifully, it gives such a natural and relaxed feel, the slouched "I don't care" pose rules. In the 1810s, I like everything else - more structured curly hairstyles, outerwear and shoes, jewelry. The 1810s is also my favorite decade of menswear. Overall, 19th century is my favourite period of fashion, every decade is beautiful.

[@bettykober6904]

I really appreciate all the tedious research you much have put into this video. It is very relevant to me, because I write historical fiction. For this particular piece, the time period is February through June of 1858, however there are references to 1846 a couple of times. I mean, you have to dress your characters appropriately. I have some characters, which will be wearing clothes 5 - 10 years out of fashion. I have a few characters, who I want to be spot-on with current fashion. Your video is extremely helpful. (I also use a lot of first sources for my writing.) Keep up the great work. Thanks again.

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you so much Betty Kober!! Im so glad I could be of help! I would love to read your new book when it comes out! Where can I find others you have written!

[@LizzieJaneBennet]

Take care with this costume designers' habit to dress old characters in old fashion. It is NOT historically accurate : EVERYBODY, young or old, rich or poor, followed the fashion SILHOUETTE, if not the excesses of fashion. (Please excuse my english).

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

The 19th century, in particular, the 1870s and early 1890s, has my favourite women’s fashions. Though given my weight loss, the empire gowns in the beginning of the 1800s and 1810s are more plus size friendly. I want to wear every day today.

[@CulturedElegance]

Love all the decades you spoke of!! Congratulations on your weight loss!

[@baldheadkid]

Just curious: was there something about the 1880s that makes it inferior in your opinion to the decades before and after?

[@MayimHastings]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Beautifully made video, as always! They are all wonderful, but my favorite is definitely 1800's. The dresses are simple, clean, feminine and flattering to most body types. They just seem much more practical and healthier for the wearer. The 1840s would be my second pick because, again, simplicity. I love it when simple, crisp dresses have a dramatic accent, like medieval period dresses with their long sleeves.

[@LupitaPolit-ng5pf]

Beautiful and wonderful amaizing

[@almutphilipp4057]

I'am so interested in clothes of the 19'th century. Wonderfull dresses. Thank you for showing and explainig!

[@KeVonBouVie]

Honey I just want too let you know I’m just as obsessed as you are with fashion I’m building a costal home and I have insist on having a “drawing room inlayed with gold leaf on the walls” instead of having a living room

[@kate_cooper]

How wonderful to have a drawing room. I hope you have a lot of fun designing and decorating it.

[@CulturedElegance]

Love it! Good job

[@totallydomestic433]

Who ever decided the protruding bustle was pretty? Off with their head! Love the capes and then the jackets. I would wear them today.

[@nobodyqwertyu]

Yes looking like you have an end table up your skirt is very strange. 1700s wide paniers were also quite awful, like your shoplifting a television.

[@janboyd1172]

There are elements that appeal to me from each decade.

[@debrahouston2884]

Loved this, as I studied the history of costume (clothing) as part of my design degree. TY for this thorough review of the 1800s.

[@CulturedElegance]

How wonderful! So goad you enjoyed

[@sharonalexa]

I love your channel!

[@glitterytrinket6246]

Great show

[@keithnaylor1981]

Stunning HD shows off the amazing art works.

[@CulturedElegance]

So glad you enjoyed them

[@natashatuskovichcoworking]

This video is amazing! I love how many great examples you found!

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you so much! It was very fun finding them

[@natashatuskovichcoworking]

@@CulturedElegance I absolutely appreciate the time and research you must have put in! I would love to see you do videos like this for more centuries!

[@joywetzel4640]

I love this video! So great

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you!!

[@pamelaevans6485]

Very interesting. Really enjoyed this; well done.

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you very much

[@user-gc3lm2nh7b]

Beautiful dresses!! I would love to dress like that!! So elegant!!

[@dannybeun948]

Gréât documentaire 👌

[@LizzieJaneBennet]

👏👏👏 Wonderful ! Wonderful ! Wonderful ! Thank you !

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you!!🥰💓

[@anniehague1554]

Thank you for the wonderful presentation, the paintings showing examples, and actual dresses! I am staggered by your research and compilation. Have you written a book? Best regards.

[@LupitaPolit-ng5pf]

Great cultured elegance beautiful nice the paintings schowing examples old and actual dreses absoluble extraordinary details fine and nostalgic naturaly femenin thank you merci

[@lynnfox2359]

Beautiful fashion

[@lindamac7465]

Excellent 😊

[@vbee3571]

It’s difficult but I think I like the 1890s the best. Gosh, some of those decades had very odd colors combinations! And, for some years, the motto must have been- too much is not enough. Still, I miss times when people dressed nicely (and weren’t almost naked). I realize enjoy your videos!

[@nobodyqwertyu]

I really hate the colors of that pink 1830s dress with the green apron thingie. Just awful. And some of these brown/mustardy bustle dresses too.

[@viniciussantanamartins2902]

The earlies 1800s were for sure my favourite period. This classical style reproducing the ancient roman and greek sillhouette are so lovely, sophisticated and it looks like they were so nice and comfortable to wear for women. My only point is regarding the white color. In a time where washing machines simply didn't exist, to keep these dresses all clean on muddy streets and in a country living, must to have been such a nightmare lol Just loved the video and its precious content. Keep it up ❤❤❤

[@guldenaydin9918]

Since the leaf of Eve... Thank you. Dreamy. 🌈💝

[@Ug1i]

18th century next? Oooh medieval gowns? 🤔🤔🤔 u inspire me fr

[@CulturedElegance]

thank you so much!!! love your ideas

[@terrysilva6430]

I love it all

[@tifanyb3954]

I love the fashion of the 19th century 😍.

[@CulturedElegance]

so glad you enjoyed see it!!

[@Ug1i]

Omg yay!!!!❤❤❤ ❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@CulturedElegance]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@stefaniapilotto7165]

Beautiful video! I love 1840-1850...but...how much they costed in the past?

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you so much!! Welcome to the channel💖 and Lots of money! It’s hard to say, each dress would have been different

[@Thundralight]

The woman's dress back then was so elegant. Now women wear jeans and t shirts

[@KellyBrown-sp5uh]

How gorgeous ❤

[@LupitaPolit-ng5pf]

Beautyful coulours dhyle absoluble beautiful

[@jchow5966]

This is excekkent.

[@KellyBrown-sp5uh]

Those are all my dresses 👚👗👘👚👒

[@valery668]

I cannot imagine how the poorly-paid, working 16-hour-days servants, who maintained this fashions, got through a day. Their mistresses changed three to six times a day and able to "rest"--while the ladies' maids had to wait up all night for their betters to come home from the party and be ready whisk the lovely dress away after being worn.

[@ruthm.6071]

When the "princess line" dresses came into fashion were they popularized by a specific princess?

[@brucetidwell7715]

Of course fashion always focuses on the upper class who had money to spend and the social influence to drive changes in style. I was struck by how incredibly fragile and impractical the white muslin dresses of the Empire era were, even for women of leisure, though. What were middle an lower class women who needed to lead active lives wearing then?

[@Richardsonprincess00]

Hopefully to do fashion in 1700s soon.

[@CulturedElegance]

Coming soon!!

[@Ashley-yb9nj]

Uh wow wow wow if I go to James Joyce blossom day I would definitely go for the pink dress thumbs up for good ❤👍🖋🗒✅️📉📊😃😏🙂 Ashley says

[@margaretlynch1494]

🙋‍♀️❤️

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[@NothIng-bd9ci]

I wonder how middle class dresses looked in 1810-1830 period🤔 somehow there are not many pictures of them.

[@KellyBrown-sp5uh]

All those dresses are mine and mines only

[@sethalim8283]

19th century Fashion

[@LaHayeSaint]

If you were well-to-do in the 19th century, with fashions changing so rapidly and the cost of each dress "expensive," the question arises as to what to do with all your gorgeous but out-of-date dresses. Do you sell them, or ask a skilled seamstress to make alterations? Or, dare you go to the ball in a dress that other women start to gossip about in a most unflattering way, and risk embarrassment?

[@jdsiv3]

the fashions didn't change that fast as you can see it is over a period of years that things changed and older dresses would be remade into newer styles

[@LaHayeSaint]

@@jdsiv3 TBC -- But if you were in High Society, you might be discovered as someone who had made alterations. Gossip might ensue!

[@soheesweetheart]

@@LaHayeSaint It’s never really discovered what people born to the upper class would do with their out of date or old garments. I would Not be surprised if they still took them and had them tailored to be up to date with the current fashions. ( many of which the lower class had to do) and considering that many 19th century garments actually came in components and not as an entirely conjoined garment, many pieces were interchangeable to accommodate to current event. Some dresses came with a day and evening, bodices, as well as a bodice for walking. Contrary to what may be believed, the upper class would repeat garments, since sewing machines weren’t invented until 1846, so having something tailored and worn again, I believe wouldn’t be seen as taboo.

[@LaHayeSaint]

@@soheesweetheart Soheesweetheart -- Your argument is most definitely worthy of serious consideration. In essence, it all depends what the fashion was: Did other women alter and wear, or would you see a flickering of opened fans as you walked into the ballroom, with other women gossiping about "that dress" from the last decade which they were sure you were wearing last year! Oh dear! On the other hand, I would feel really bad about cutting up my beautiful dresses and I might wear them come what may. If you were very financially secure, it should be no problem as you could keep up with the fashions as they changed over the decade. If I would be totally honest, it was more a question of keeping up your youthful appearance with younger "rosebuds" just beginning to enter society.

[@myriamickx7969]

Fashions definitely did not change twice a year as they do now!

[@Kotyk_Murkotyk]

Fabrics are of prime importance. So, the last decade of that century is more appealing to me.🪻

[@catherinelee3298]

These dresses are gorgeous. When did they stop using crinoline because of the fire hazard?

[@user-pt6fb8ks9p]

19th Century were the only times that women are finely and modestly dressed.

[@KellyBrown-sp5uh]

So lovely 💋

[@jdsiv3]

1880s

[@DAGOBE57]

Très belle collection de tenues d'époque. La mode a beaucoup perdu en féminité depuis cette époque. C'est dommage.

[@loisfolk5492]

I can’t imagine having a hot flash and some of these dresses. No wonder women fainted.

[@tymanung6382]

But 1800 to 1820. Neo classical--- ancestors stykes?,--- only for Latin Europeans, +,Greeks.. For N + E Europe women,,Greek +,Roman women were "ancestors",in sense of new pan--- European 1 generic :" white Christian race;,". cultural ancestors were supposed to only be Greek + Roman women.