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Practicing Citation
1) Eluwawalage explores ‘fashion trends in the nineteenth century’ and the ways in which flora and fauna particularly inspired extreme and unusual fashions of this era, predominantly embellishments of natural or nature-inspired materials paired with a further explanation of the ideology behind this influence.

2) This book ‘nineteenth-century fashion in detail’ combines rich illustrations of both colour photography and line sketches of actual garments paired with informative textual description to delve into the historical dress of the nineteenth century, capturing the era’s opulence and diversity.

3) The research considers harmony and contrast as critical influences of colour and looks at the ways in which science played a key role in defining fashion identities and trends of this era.

4) This article on ‘nineteenth century silhouette and support’ builds upon the cited historical overviews and comparatively offers a precise description of the changing technical details, use of textiles, shape and structures of dresses throughout the nineteenth century.

5) This article includes a historical description of clothing, hair and accessories and is complemented by an image gallery, visually demonstrating these styles through pieces in the museum’s own collection.

Adding to the Stub 6.3.3
Early 1800s (1800-1829)

Technological innovations

At the turn of the 18th century, the Western world – namely Europe and the United States – were revelling in the prosperity of the rapid progress that came with the rise of the Industrial Revolution[i].

The textile industry was the first to use modern production techniques, namely mechanised cotton spinning with automatic machine looms[ii]. With the arrival of automated methods, through industrialisation came the creation of factories which maximised productivity[iii]. The unprecedented rapid and sustained economic growth demonstrated by the textile industry – through employment and value output – saw huge changes in the affordability of clothes and textile materials as prices fell2 [iv].

[i] Berlanstein, L.R. (1992). The Industrial Revolution and work in nineteenth-century Europe. London and New York: Routledge.

[ii] Landes, D.S. (1969). The Unbound Prometheus: technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

[iii] Walker, W. (1993). National Innovation Systems: Britain. In Nelson, R. (Eds.), National innovation systems: a comparative analysis. New York: Oxford University Press.  

[iv] Hopkins, E. (2000). Industrialisation and Society: A Social History, 1830-1951. London: Routledge.

[Lead] In-Class Writing
Fashion in the 19th century was influenced by a multitude of changing era's and historical movements, which defined the clothing styles and complementary accessories of the time.

The early 19th century saw the end of the Georgian Era and by mid-nineteenth century fashion was very much quintessential of the Victorian Era - corsets, hoop-skirt silhouettes, bonnets, bustles and petticoats.

Answers to Module Seven Questions

 * 1) The media I chose to create was an original work which is an ink sketch drawing of a women's dress from the Victorian Era which relates to my article topic of '19th century in Fashion'.
 * 2) The drawing is my own work - it does not represent the work of another. It will resemble other drawings simply through the theme of clothing worn at the time which I aim to depict in my sketch however the detail was inspired by my own imagination and it is my creativity.
 * 3) It is an open file image format - PDF as I scanned it through.
 * 4) I have chosen the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 license as recommended for images CC BY-SA 4.0.
 * 5) Category:Fashion by century
 * 6) Description: Black and white ink sketch of women's dress from the Victorian Era, 19th Century Fashion History.