Victorian dresses continue to captivate the ... Popular in the 1870s and 1880s, bustle dresses featured exaggerated back skirts supported by padded structures. These dresses emphasized curves ...

Grands Magasins du Louvre, 1877/Wikimedia Commons Victorian fashionistas ... of the bustle, writes the University of Vermont, “changed the shape of the entire dress, not just the back.

A mysterious code found in the pocket of a Victorian-era silk dress ... The bronze-colored dress held a secret: A hidden pocket beneath the bustle contained crumpled, handwritten notes covered ...

The Victorian dress in the Maine antique mall was unlike anything Sara Rivers Cofield had seen before. Its fitted bodice, puffy bustle and lace cuffs reflected a bygone era. As a vintage costume ...

Please contact us at [email protected] for help. For about two decades towards the end of the Victorian era, in the 1870s and 1880s, a large bustle-enhanced bottom was the height of fashion.

On the 2025 Grammys red carpet, we get a Victorian portrait ... sharply pointed shoulders and a voluminous taffeta bustle and ball gown. Her dark dress featured a corseted leather bodice with ...