Our website is extremely popular among schoolchildren, students, and people working on different educational projects. So, we’ve decided to structure the information on Nationalclothing.org a bit so that you could easier find what you need and better understand what you can freely use for your assignments. In this post, we’ve gathered all possible articles regarding 19th-century fashion and specified whether you have permission to use the photos or not.
If you’re interested in the 19th-century traditional clothing of a certain country, choose a corresponding section by country. Here, we’ve gathered only articles on general topics around 19th-century fashion.
General topics
Late modern period fashion. Why 19th-century gowns were so ornate and beautiful?
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19th century fashion. Dozens of different trends, silhouettes, and designs
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Female and kid’s fashion of the 19th century in Europe and US
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Toddler boys wore dresses in the 18th and 19th centuries up until their breeching ceremony
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Dandy fashion in the 19th century. What crazy trends did they invent?
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Clothing fashion in Europe in the 1850s-1860s
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What natural dyes were used for embroidery threads in the 19th century?
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Period-accurate clothing on portrait miniatures. The most charming source of fashion info ever!
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Funeral fashion. What were people buried in centuries ago?
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Napoleonic Wars fashion trends: chip bonnets, superfine silk net, and several waistcoats on men
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Female and kid 19th-century clothes were often adorned with lace
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Doll-like female fashion of the 1830s-1840s. Why is that so?
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Cute women’s accessories and trinkets, Europe, late 19th – early 20th century
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Men’s Regency fashion of the early 19th century
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Regency / Empire fashion style. Terribly serious, terribly sober, terribly sensible
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Empire clothing style. 18th-century people wanted to resemble ancient statues
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Victorian hair fashion. Female hairstyles in the 1870s
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How did Victorian clothing caused people’s deaths
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Victorian dress reform. The rational dress
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Samples of vintage French, Belgian, and Italian lace
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European fashion trends in the 1890s: leg’o’mutton sleeves and bolero jackets
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Articles about separate 19th-century garments
High-tech bustles of the 19th century. The variety of shapes, sizes, and materials impresses!
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Chip bonnets – common fashionable accessory of the early 19th century
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Warmest and coziest 19th-century outerwear. Elegant winter wear for frosty January weather
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Sack suit or lounge suit – one of the most popular men’s casual outfits in the 19th century
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Charming carrick or garrick traveling coat from the mid-19th century. What’s so special about it?
Everything you should know about male tailcoats of the early 19th century
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Pelisse – women’s outerwear originating from military uniform
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Corset cover – just a pretty garb or absolute necessity?
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19th-century lace collars – expensive and ornate openwork masterpieces
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Morning gown or peignoir – lovely attire of upper-class women in the 19th – early 20th century
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Spatterdashes and gaiters – what’s the difference between these footwear accessories?
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Adorable 1840s-50s fan-pleated dresses
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Hand fans in the 19th – early 20th century. The beauty of clothing accessories
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Fancy kid shoes in the 1800s. Wealthy 19th-century children wore lovely footwear
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Nice example of fashionable kid shoes from the 1810s
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Why were aprons so popular in folk costumes, peasant outfits, and even noble and royal ensembles?
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Caps of German women were highly decorative in the 18th-19th century
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Articles about 19th-century jewelry
Georgian-era jewelry styles: festoon necklaces, Lover’s Eyes, quizzing glasses, and handmade chains
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Pearls throughout centuries. Magnificent jewelry with pearls
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Georgian-era jewelry. What materials did jewelers use at the time?
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Posts with old photos of gentlemen, ladies, and children
Old photos of children from the mid-19th century
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Old photos from 1840s. Real-life clothing and hairstyles of mid-19th century
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19th-century clothing depicted in old photos
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Colorized old photos from Victorian England. What did men, women, and children wear at the time?
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Vintage photos of women from Belle Époque
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Colorized photos of adorable Edwardian-era girls
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Vintage photos of wealthy Victorian couples in authentic clothing and jewelry
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Real-life photos of Victorian-era women
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