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Title: Photograph Clothing from the period 1850-1890
Post by: matt94 on Friday 05 February 10 21:46 GMT (UK)

Hello Rootschatters,

I would like to ask you for a favour. I am writing a little story about some members of my family, and I wanted to know about Victorian clothing from 1850-1890. The relatives I am following (Clarissa and Sarah) were born in the 1810's and I am writing about their life 1850-their deaths. They were upper-working/lower-middle class dressmakers from a small Buckinghamshire village.

I would love to see photographs of women's clothing in the Victorian era, to help me get a feel of what they would have looked like. Basically they'd be 40-upwards in the story.

So if any of you could post photographs up I would be most grateful
Thanks
Matt

Title: Re: Photograph Clothing from the period 1850-1890
Post by: jim1 on Friday 05 February 10 21:59 GMT (UK)

Hello Matt
Here are a couple of typical 1850's ladies.

Title: Re: Photograph Clothing from the period 1850-1890
Post by: jim1 on Friday 05 February 10 21:59 GMT (UK)

& a couple more

Title: Re: Photograph Clothing from the period 1850-1890
Post by: Gadget on Friday 05 February 10 22:58 GMT (UK)

Hello Matt  :)

In addition to the lovely examples that Jim's put up, there's a whole heap of examples here:

http://www.cartes.fsnet.co.uk/date/main.htm

and on Prue's site

http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pruesfamily/index.html


Gadget

Title: Re: Photograph Clothing from the period 1850-1890
Post by: maidmarianoops on Saturday 06 February 10 03:19 GMT (UK)

also roger vaugan  http://images.google.com.au/images



and brett payne
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/photo2/index.html

sylvia