Fashion - 1840s-1850s-1860s

Wide, wider, widest! From layers of horsehair and/or quilted crinolines of the 1840s and early 1850s to the cage crinolines (hoop skirts) of the late 1850s and 1860s.
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter Portrait of Victoria of the United Kingdom (1843)
1840s.
Dress, Evening Date: ca. 1842 Culture: American or European Medium: silk

1840s

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Anna Dollfus, Baronness de Bourgoing by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1855 France Winterhalter did a lot of portraits like this one, but he was good at them.  Why fix what ain’t broke?
Countess Varvara Alekseyevna Musina-Pushkina by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1850s Russia, State Hermitage Museum
Portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1857 Russia, State Hermitage Museum

1850s

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Evening DressCharles Fredrick Worth, 1866-1868The Philadelphia...
Robe a la transformation, 1860 Canada (Montreal), McCord Museum
This may be my favorite dress from this era. <3 Day dress, ca 1859-61 France, MFA Boston

1860s

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