Probably the 20s through the 40s, except for those shoulder pads

1850-1869, love those excessively humongous skirts, without the puffy sleeves tho

I have no year, I like the beauty

The years before the sewing machine because all of those outfits were hand sewn. I find it just amazing (!!) that the Seamstress had the dexterity to make such fine sewing details. Very simply: make a pattern, buy the fabric and make the outfit fit to the tee! Yet, it wasn’t so simple, it took an imaginative mind to dream and put the idea on paper, then one had to seek out where to buy the fabric (surely it wasn’t a few minutes drive to a major retailer), and then hand sew each and every stitch using a needle. I like to know how Scarlett O’Hara stored her dresses. The closets had to be huge! : )

The first decade. Second best is the 1860-1865.

Very true very true!! 💓💕

I noticed that too! The rosy one looked like the Titanic era tea-evening dress style as well!

Completely agree with you

Yes they revived it around 1910, and also revived the late Georgian style in interiors, furniture, book binding and silver at the same time

I was saying the exact same thing to myself!!!

I just want one of them 😍

Many are so similar to what they sell now in stores, like the 1810 but way shorter 😅

Like a big nightshirt.

I always think of Miss Shirley whenever I see puffed sleeves too. 😉

I thought the exact same thing. My daughter just started reading Anne of Green Gables yesterday.

One other movie with gorgeous period dresses is The Age of Innocence.

I am so happy to hear that. Many things in life it is important to do right by others, but when it comes to a gorgeous gown - you gotta do right by yourself and your taste! And I think it's spectacular that you can still enjoy the dress even after it's pinnacle moment.

@@pickle6846 Thanks! :)

i mean, if i ever got to get married in a fancy wedding dress that i will never have the occasion to wear again, i would do the same thing... i'd probably also go as a "zombie bride" for Halloween every year too 🤣💯 Gotta get your money's worth somehow 🤷🏽

Well, you did pay for the dress, may as well put it to good use!

Nicole Rudolph has a video on that

The 1860s was apparently also when the "badonkadonk" was invented... Who needs a Brazilian butt lift when you can just build one into your dress design? Fascinating...

It’s my least liked decade (the ridiculous hoop skirts!) bet each to her own

​@@mamavswildwhat about the 1700s

@@mamavswildYou're right!

So glad you enjoyed!!! Such a beautiful time

I think you make an excellent case!!⚜️

Me too those are my favourites Edit-oh and the first 3 decades

Agree 💯

Thank you Almut! Welcome to the channel!! I agree with you! A lovely time it was

Same here, just thought how uncomfortable to be dressed all day 😢

Agreed!

They look comfortable? Really? To me they look many things, but comfortable isn't one of them, as the mid-century dresses would never fit or hang right without a tight corset and layers of crinoline and horsehair underneath. On the other hand the early years of the century, the "empire" style freed women from corsetry, finally, after centuries. But then...they had to squeeze back into the corsets for nearly another century.

@@dinazina55 you obviously didn't understand what I said. I meant the early-century dresses were comfortable, not the mid-century ones.

I agree!! Welcome to the channel Diane!! ❤️⚜️

You make a great point❤️⚜️

Very true!! Sounds good!! I’m so glad you enjoyed

Agreed! I’d love to see a video like this with hats 😁

Thank you so much!! So glad you enjoyed!! 💕💓

Same 1790, 1890 and 1990 are all my favs!!!

Very true

That's my LEAST favorite decade of 1800s fashion... and yes, that was the intended effect -- to make women look like dolls. And the bonnets were akin to horse blinkers, limiting peripheral sight.

Sanditon was a very enjoyable show!! Love Gone With The Wind!! Very very true

The costumes in Hamilton are very well done too considering the dancing all the actors had to do. (Especially the Schuyler sisters)

That's a modern trend ever since fashion houses became a thing. (Worth is different. The first Worth was like a fairy dictator. He decided if your fit was it or not. And he just made the same white dresses and added different trimmings.) Idk too much about his son except that house of Worth made the peacock gown (a beautiful garment with an extremely distasteful history) Otherwise most fashion was dictated by people's personal preferences/current events (back then) and propaganda. The big hips of the Georgian period (1700s) went out of fashion with the French revolution and wanted to get away from the opulence of the royals/nobility. The hair styles went out of fashion not long after due to a flour shortage (the powder part of pomade and powder) The 1500s were marked by the somber dress to show their "devotion to god" (Spain was the fashion capital of the world back then) Tudor fashion is warmer than other medieval fashion trends because of a mini ice age caused by the volcano in Iceland going off years before. Romans and Hellans (Greeks) being in warmer climes wore little more than a cloth draped about them or pinned together at the shoulders. The more fabric you wore, the wealthier you were. And the issues you describe only really became an issue about the same time looking like a heroin Addict became the it look

Excellent points!! Such a beautiful and exuberant time for women’s fashion!

Wasn’t it!

So beautiful!!!

Indeed Monica. I too love the empire styles.

Because men did not want them to be able to be more independent and think for themselves and start to participate in Civic and public life. Keeping them as decorations was another way of oppressing them and controlling them.

​@@mlcarver1739 Yep.

I have read somewhere that a big hoopskirt was actually some form of empowerment because the bigger the hoop, the bigger your personal space.

Se fueron complicado y aunque es de alavarse su espero en cada pliegue, escarola, encaje.

"Chanel freed women" is just a common myth that attributes to her an incredibly huge influence that she did not have, especially during the period when this "liberation" was taking place. Yes, she is a very talented fashion designer, but she was only one of many who understood that life conditions were changing and "fell into the stream."

Dresses werent actually that restricting. In fact, it was impossible to tightlace corsets until the advent of metal eyelets, as handsewn ones would just tear. Women wouldnt wear torture devices everyday for multiple decades lol. Obviously you couldnt run a triathalon in these large dresses, but weathy women wore large skirts to show their wealth not only for affording that much fabric but showing they didnt have to do any labor that the skirts would interfere with.

Ah, but consider how many people you can avoid when your skirt is 100 miles wide! Pure bliss 😂

@@kittybit711 exactly lol women in the past werent stupid as people like to make out

The idea that the Bustle was inspired by Sarah Baartman is a complete myth. Mrs Baartman was brought to London in 1810 and died in 1815, 60 years before the bustle ever came into fashion. I don't know where this misconception arose, but is so easily disproven to the point of being laughable.

@@rustyshadeofred , ok, you definitely have me by dates then! What do you think inspired the back bustle? The Elizabethan stomacher can be explained by needing to hide pregnancies, whether legitimate or otherwise, from an eccentric old Queen; the 1700s paniers probably exaggerate the hips to suggest ease of childbirth and fecundity; the bell skirts are simply a fancification of many petticoats (which, besides adding warmth, also prove wealth, like jewelry), but to what can we possibly ascribe the back-bustle? The tightness across the front hampers walking (let alone running) far more than a multitude of petticoats ever could, let alone a crinoline or farthingale (which probably seemed like a blessed release to the women who were relieved of the excessive weight of many starch-stiffened petticoats); and the back? Whatever for? You can't even sit properly - have to perch on the very edge of a chair! Mind you, they (the men and some nurses, that is) were out here fighting the Anglo-Boer Wars at about the time of the back bustle. Trying to annex our gold and diamonds, that is. Gold, actually, by that time. They already had the diamonds by that time. Maybe they were reminded about Sarah Baartman. Maybe not. Just after dear Lord Kitchener had done with slaughtering a whole bunch of people in Khartoum, they sent him here. Very kind. It also fascinates me that at just the time that British do-gooders and Missionaries were in China passionately fighting the foot-binding of upper-class Chinese women as barbaric and cruel, the corset in Britain and Europe was so tight as to be close to severing a woman's kidneys; and the back-bustle was hampering her running just as effectively as a hobble around a horse's ankles, or the bound-feet of the Chinese they were champing at the bit about. Human beings are just so very odd sometimes. I'm not attacking you, Rusty Red Man. I'm just always very interested to try and work out why fashions turn the way they do at certain times. Male and female fashions, and children's fashions. Climate change? Religion? Philosophy? Discoveries? Weltgeist? Outside suggestions and fashions? Conquest and assimilation? So I am really interested to know, if you don't think it's Sarah Baartman, why do you think it happened? It's one of the oddest fashions ever.

I have never seen that movie!! I will have to!!

Thank you so very much! Your comment means a great deal!! I agree!! It is so interesting to see what people were wearing when you have objects from that time or a home from that time!

Always remember the youngest woman in the photo will probably have the most fashionable dress! Good luck!

Old photos. So jealous. I've had to purchase photos of my Victorian and Edwardian "family" at antique stores. 💚

@@rubysmith8818 At least you have not bought an estate complete with a chapel containing ancestors as Major General Stanley did in "The Pirates of Penzance." He was very proud of his ancestors. Here is the passage. The General: I come here to humble myself before the tombs of my ancestors, and to implore their pardon for having brought dishonour on the family escutcheon. Frederick: But you forget, sir, you only bought the property a year ago, and the stucco on your baronial castle is scarcely dry. General: Frederic, in this chapel are ancestors: you cannot deny that. With the estate, I bought the chapel and its contents. I don’t know whose ancestors they were, but I know whose ancestors they are, and I shudder to think that their descendant by purchase (if I may so describe myself) should have brought disgrace upon what, I have no doubt, was an unstained escutcheon.

@@dorothywillis1 Love it! If I was able to afford it, I might have! 😆. I love my purchased relatives.

Thank you for your wonderful comment Julieann!! 💖

I agree gibson girl era is *chefs kiss*

thank you so much for your kind comment and appreciation

I wish I could too!! Seems we’d have to get the fabric, make them ourselves or get someone to do it! Then we’d be unstoppable!! ❤️🤌😄

they sure are!!

Thank you for your appreciation!!❤️

Definitely got to love the 1800-1820s and the 1910s!! Right, full circle indeed!! Wish it had done the same today!!!

The 1814 dress is my hands down favorite….it’s got the empire waist while still cinching at the hips

Your comment is the best!!! Thank you so much! That is frightful!!😅 sad and true!!😭😂

I like that people have the freedom to wear a bathrobe and slippers if they feel like it, and also 1800s dresses if they feel like it. The more diverse clothing I see when I go out, the more fun! Everyone should be able to dress however they want, feel is comfortable, or think looks pretty!

​@@Tuilelen Agreed, but it's depressing that the lack of mainstream popularity for these types of fashions means that it is impossible to buy them pre-made or to find a seamstress who can sew them properly. Your only option is to try learning it yourself, but the time commitment and especially the expense is a big hurdle to actually going through with it

Aw thank you so much !! Indeed you are right

Wow I would have loved to have seen that exhibition! 20th century fashion will be in another video! As well as Jackie and Lee’s style and wardrobes!

Thank you Anna!! Welcome to the channel!!

You have loved watching them or haven’t haha

Thank you so much!!!! So glad you enjoyed!! ✨💕 I really appreciate it

Aw thank you Ms. Jillian for your kind comment!! Yes I agree so fascinating to see the progression and all of the dresses lined up! ❤️⚜️

You are so welcome!

Aw get out! Thank you so much!! I'm so glad I could help!