Historical fashion

any good resources on fashion from the late 1800s to early 1900s from various countries?

I think it can be loosely related, but obesity was never really a social problem as it is now until the industrial revolution begat corn,corn everywhere.
The Victorian fetishization of tuberculosis is probably a more interesting subject, but that too can be mostly chalked up to out-of-control literary romanticism about Byronic love affairs and all that.

What really interests me is the huge skirt thing.
Were they actually made to increase the visual impression of a woman's posterior? If that was the case you'd think something more practical would be created, like a pad or a cushion. Was it more a case of "I'm going to buy the most impractical thing to showcase my wealth, because I'm loaded"?

Since even expensive fabrics are now frivolously economic thanks to increased industry, is the modern fashion more determined by explicit ownership of goods and a pricey cosmopolitan lifestyle? Or is it influenced more by brand-recognition? Maybe even physical augmentations?
I know the Kardashians are very stylistically influential, but the sisters are basically glorified whores and the trend of having a gigantic, expensive posterior seems like it would be an ephemeral one. Even if the advent of superior tights/leggings have made the buttocks more chic overall.

>If that was the case you'd think something more practical would be created, like a pad or a cushion.
You're literally describing the 'cul de Paris' which became popular around the late 19th century

Fuck, all the padding in the world can't fix that man-jaw.

And that's the cruel stinger of fashion, isn't it? Dress however you like, it doesn't matter. If you're pretty, you're pretty, and if you're ugly, you're ugly.

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Huh. I had absolutely no idea that existed.

Worst thing was make up was not tolerated on non-prostitutes women in the 19th century. No cheating possible!

>implying i'm not wearing lolita right now

Check out Lolita, it's a fashion subculture originating in Japan that's based on Victorian and Rococo clothing. Particularly the Classic style.

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You would've found Victorian era fashion disgusting and tasteless if you lived in the time and had to deal with putting on victorian-era fashion.

Just imagine cunts like that every single day blocking your way into the bank or the local general store with their stupid fucking oversized dresses and their wheezing from the crinoline/tournure and corset. There's a reason they all ditched that shit by the 1900's. Having to deal with masses of women dressed up like peacocks must've been HELL for a train conductor or a department store manager.

ya got me

>Just imagine cunts like that every single day blocking your way into the bank or the local general store with their stupid fucking oversized dresses and their wheezing from the crinoline/tournure and corset. There's a reason they all ditched that shit by the 1900's. Having to deal with masses of women dressed up like peacocks must've been HELL for a train conductor or a department store manager.

lmao

they only wore that for portraits or very specific events

Plebian outfits ITT. Minoan women knew how to do real fashion.

>their wheezing from the crinoline/tournure and corset
This only happened with the corset if women tightlaced, which was incredibly rare and even then how much it actually affected the respiratory system is still under debate.

As for the crinoline, you would actually be cooler than you would be with your typical modern fashion due to the air having more room to circulate.