http://sydneypadua.com/2010/06/21/some-victorian-costume-sketches/ portfolio and blog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sydneypadua.com/2010/06/21/some-victorian-costume-sketches/comment-page-1/#comment-1401 Lalitte Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:35:32 +0000 http://sydneypadua.com/?p=134#comment-1401 1830s - 1860s - yup, a *particularly* hideous age sartorially, and the appearance of new chemical dyes in the 1850s gave ever easier vent to bad taste. Things only got better in the 70s/80s with the bustle - though I was dismayed to find out, acto one historical account, that the bustle was an insidiously racist+sexist garment - seen at the time as a way of giving white women the supposed generosity of behind only found in black female slaves. Yikes. 1830s – 1860s – yup, a *particularly* hideous age sartorially, and the appearance of new chemical dyes in the 1850s gave ever easier vent to bad taste. Things only got better in the 70s/80s with the bustle – though I was dismayed to find out, acto one historical account, that the bustle was an insidiously racist+sexist garment – seen at the time as a way of giving white women the supposed generosity of behind only found in black female slaves. Yikes.

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