Spring Fashion Notes - 1883

 

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🧵✨ Spring Fashion Trends of 1883 ✨🧵

Love fashion? Step back into the Gilded Age and see what was in style for fashionable women of 1883!

Popular Looks

• Plaids & Scotch gingham were all the rage
• Combination costumes offered stylish variety
• Soft woolen dresses were kept simple and plain for home wear

Accessories & Accents

• Long gloves, laced boots, and black silk stockings were wardrobe staples
• Lace came in all shades, with black jetted lace a favorite for dressy outfits
• Feathers, flowers, and pompons adorned the latest bonnets

Fabrics & Colors

• Pastels made way for corn blue, checked summer silks, and even black velvet
• Capes just to the waist were the perfect spring wrap — in round, square, or pointed styles

Hair Today, Fashion Tomorrow

• The "small German knot" hairstyle with crimped or waved hair was the go-to updo

Fun Fact: The most fashionable shoes? Low heels!

Resource: Arizona Republic, April 1883, Fashion Notes

Fall Fashion Notes - 1897

Phoenix Weekly Herald, September 30, 1897

 

Fashion of the 1890s

"Men's Fashion 1890's"
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C.

http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.45062/

"Women's Fashion 1890s"
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C.

https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.45006

One of our last blog posts was about a tragic death of a young woman named Lunice Teel.  She worked at the Boston Store.  These would have been some fashions that may have been sold there during this time.....