Photograph Clothing from the period 1850-1890

[matt94]

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

[jim1]

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

[jim1]

& a couple more

[Gadget]

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

[maidmarianoops]

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



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

sylvia