20th Century Dress and Fashion

Now that you’ve read the V&A articles about Victorian dress and watched the video, answer these
questions:
1. What were the essentials of the essentials of Victorian clothing for men? Include an image from
a web site (Met or V & A) with a caption that includes the “tombstone” for the object (title,
artist/designer [if listed], date, materials, museum collection and accession no.).
2. What were the essentials of Victorian clothing for women? Include underwear and outerwear.
Include an image from a web site (Met or V & A) with caption that includes the “tombstone” for
the object (details above).
3. Do you think Victorian men were more comfortable in their clothing than Victorian women?
4. Why did Victorian women feel that it was important to wear a corset? What did a corset-less
woman represent in terms of morality?

You can reference lecture notes, videos and readings; for all quotes and references,
please cite properly using APA guidelines.

Reading Reference below:

WATCH: youtube video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkgk9CXVuDc

READ: V & A Museum “Introduction to 19th
century Fashion”
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/i/introduction-to-19th-century-fashion/
Review
some of the related objects in the section to the right of the article

READ: V&A Museum, “Corsets and Bustles”
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/corsets-and-bustles-1880-1890-from-over-structured-opulence-to-the-healthy-corset/
Review
some of the related objects in the section to the right of the article

READ/REVIEW: “Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity” at The
Metropolitan Museum (2013) Go through exhibition highlights as well as each
Gallery of Images (1-8)
https://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/impressionism-fashion-modernity/images

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