Victorian fashion

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Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in clothing in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly from the 1830s through 1900. The period saw many changes in fashion, including changes in styles, fashion technology and methods of distribution. Various movements in architecture, literature, and the decorative and visual arts as well as a changing perception of gender roles also influenced fashion. During Queen Victoria's reign, the U.K. enjoyed a period of economic and political growth along with technological advancement. The large cultural and technological forces that supported that growth had equally sweeping influences on fashion for women, men and children. For fashion, these forces are the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the British Empire (on which the sun was said never to set), the social classes (and the expanding middle class), differentiation of the genders...

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