Gender Roles And Women's Fashion During The 19th Century
Mens and Womens Fashion:
"Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak." - Rachel Zoe
“...Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” - Coco Chanel
During the 19th century women’s clothing included camp dresses, work dresses, day dresses, visiting dresses, tea dresses, evening dresses, formal dresses, wedding gowns, ball gowns as well as riding habits, skirts, bodices, and blouses. Ladies dresses were all custom made and were done up to the buyers specifications. They range from plain, which are worn for work or during the day, to fancy, which are worn at parties, teas, or visitings, to extremely fancy, which are for the evening, formal events, or weddings. During the …show more content…
While farmers might use their wagons for both work and personal transportation, they could rarely afford a vehicle dedicated only to hauling people. A large variety of four-wheeled carriages, both open and closed, were developed to meet the market, but they still sold to select people. The entire city of Boston had only 145 wheeled vehicles in 1798. Philadelphia had only 827 wheeled vehicles in 1794. In both cases, the majority of these vehicles were carts and wagons for hauling commercial goods or light two-wheeled vehicles, such as sulkies and shays. The real breakthrough for personal transportation was the buggy. Appearing in the 1830s, buggies underwent the classic cycle of increasing demand and decreasing prices. In the 1860s, a good-quality buggy would cost a tradesman $125 to $150, several months’ wages. By 1900, the application of factory methods had dropped the price to about one month’s wages. In that year, over 660,000 buggies and road wagons were sold, about 72 percent of total carriage production. Most carriages were sold to farmers.
Bicycles: Bicycles offered great personal mobility. The public responded by buying bicycles in droves. The bicycle also brought the personal transportation revolution to the cities. Private ownership of horses in a city was expensive and inconvenient, so few city dwellers owned buggies. But bicycles needed neither stables nor feed and left behind no unpleasant residue. Like the buggy industry, the bicycle industry responded to demand by vastly improving production techniques and driving down
"Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak." - Rachel Zoe
“...Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” - Coco Chanel
During the 19th century women’s clothing included camp dresses, work dresses, day dresses, visiting dresses, tea dresses, evening dresses, formal dresses, wedding gowns, ball gowns as well as riding habits, skirts, bodices, and blouses. Ladies dresses were all custom made and were done up to the buyers specifications. They range from plain, which are worn for work or during the day, to fancy, which are worn at parties, teas, or visitings, to extremely fancy, which are for the evening, formal events, or weddings. During the …show more content…
While farmers might use their wagons for both work and personal transportation, they could rarely afford a vehicle dedicated only to hauling people. A large variety of four-wheeled carriages, both open and closed, were developed to meet the market, but they still sold to select people. The entire city of Boston had only 145 wheeled vehicles in 1798. Philadelphia had only 827 wheeled vehicles in 1794. In both cases, the majority of these vehicles were carts and wagons for hauling commercial goods or light two-wheeled vehicles, such as sulkies and shays. The real breakthrough for personal transportation was the buggy. Appearing in the 1830s, buggies underwent the classic cycle of increasing demand and decreasing prices. In the 1860s, a good-quality buggy would cost a tradesman $125 to $150, several months’ wages. By 1900, the application of factory methods had dropped the price to about one month’s wages. In that year, over 660,000 buggies and road wagons were sold, about 72 percent of total carriage production. Most carriages were sold to farmers.
Bicycles: Bicycles offered great personal mobility. The public responded by buying bicycles in droves. The bicycle also brought the personal transportation revolution to the cities. Private ownership of horses in a city was expensive and inconvenient, so few city dwellers owned buggies. But bicycles needed neither stables nor feed and left behind no unpleasant residue. Like the buggy industry, the bicycle industry responded to demand by vastly improving production techniques and driving down