Vintage Victorian: Vintage Fashions Reference Library

Below is a list of topics in our on-line reference Library of period topics.
Much of the information in the library can be found in
the Vintage Dress Series of books published by Vintage Victorian

Regency fashion for Ladies updated 4 feb 2012
A guide to evening dress styles of the early 19^th Century.

Evening Dress: mid 19th Century guidelines updated 28 may 2011
for ladies and gentlemen, a general guide for putting together an outfit for a ball.
Fashion Plates: evening dress, mid-19th Century
updated 5 September 2007
for ladies, with original period descriptions.
Fashion Accessories: mid-19th Century updated 24 March 2007
for ladies, with original period descriptions.
Sewing a Civil War Era Ensemble
updated 20 September 2011
Vintage Dressmaking Library: for ladies undergarments and ball dresses.

Fashion Plates: Civil War Era updated 4 feb 2012
an index of colored fashion plates from ladies’ magazines, 1859-1864.

Evening Dress: Styles of the 1880s updated 21 May 2006
for ladies & gentlemen, a general guide for putting together an outfit for a ball.

Evening Dress: Styles of the 1890s updated 8 March 2007
for ladies and gentlemen, a general guide for putting together an outfit for a ball.
Fashion Plates: Evening Dress, 1890s updated 5 April 2007
for ladies, with original period descriptions.
Gentlemen´s Evening Attire, 1890s updated 8 March 2007
A more detailed Guide to Men's Clothing. details of illustrations &
Fashion Accessories: 1890s Evening Wear updated 9 March 2007
for ladies, hairstyles, jewelry, gloves, fans, shoes, stockings and outerwear.
Day dress: 1890s updated 8 March 2007
Contemporary Descriptions of Ladies' Day Dress.
Sporting Clothing.: 1890s updated 8 March 2007
for ladies, tennis wear, travelling clothes.

Evening Fashions: 1899-1905 updated 5 June 2006
for ladies, a general guide for putting together an outfit for a ball.
Evening Fashions: ca. 1900 Gents updated 16 November 2005
for gentlemen, a general guide for putting together an outfit for a ball.
Day Dress: 1905-1906 updated 17 May 2006
for ladies, a general guide for putting together an outfit for afternoon outing (one gentleman's illustration).
Undergarments: 1900-1909 updated 20 September, 2007
for ladies, a general guide to appropriate styles.
Fashionable Photographs 1900-1910 updated 16 May 2006
period photographs to aid in reproducing the look of the period..

Evening Dress: 1910-1919 updated 15 November 2005
for ladies and gentlemen, a general guide for putting together an outfit for a ball.
Evening Dress: Gentlemen 1910-1919 updated 20 May 2011
for gentlemen, period illustrations and text.
Undergarments: 1914 updated 5 June 2006
for ladies, corsets, tango knickers and slips.

Fashion Plates: Civil War Era updated 17 may 2011
an index of colored fashion plates from ladies’ magazines, 1859-1864.
This page is still under construction.

Bathing Costumes: Turn of the Century updated 8 March 2007
for ladies and gentlemen (under construction).

Photographs: ladies 1900-1910 updated 16 May 2006
period photographs to aid in reproducing the look of the period..

Fashionable Dances of the Day updated 15 November 2005
what was thought fashionable in New York Society (Harper's Bazar, 1896).
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle's New Dances For This Winter updated 15 November 2005
learn the latest steps from the Castles (October 1914).

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last updated 4 feb 2012/csb