Rebecca N. Mitchell

Contains a comprehensive timeline of major touchstones in social, political, scientific, and literary developments, in addition to fashion-related content, plus an annotated bibliography featuring suggestions for further reading

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Acknowledgements
Timeline

Introduction: Fashioning the Victorians

I. Fashion Theory in the Nineteenth Century
1. Thomas Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus (1836)
2. Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1843)
3. George Darwin, 'The Development of Dress' (1872)
4. Thorstein Veblen, "The Economic Theory of Women's Dress" (1894)

II. Dress Reform
5. Eliza Lynn Linton, "The Girl of the Period" (1868)
6. M. Eliza Haweis, from The Art of Dress (1879)
7. Florence Pomeroy, Lady Harberton, "Rational Dress Reform" (1882)
8. Oscar Wilde, "The Philosophy of Dress" (1897)

III. Crinolines and Corsets
9. "Crinoline" (1863)
10. Harriet Martineau, 'A New Kind of Wilful Murder' (1863)
11. Violet Greville, "Victims of Vanity" (1893)
12. Contemporary reports of crinoline and corsets

IV. Men's Dress
13. "Dress, Dandies, Fashion, &c.," Fraser's Magazine (1837)
14. "Modern Beau Brummellism," London Society (1867)
15. "When I First Put this Uniform On" and costumes from Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience (1881)

V. Occasional Dress: Wedding, Mourning, Children's and Fancy Dress
16. Contemporary reports on Queen Victoria's wedding dress
17. From Richard Davey's A History of Mourning (1890)
18. Arden Holt's Fancy Dresses Described, 2nd edition (1882) and 6th edition (1896)
19. 'Children Dress' (1884)

VI. Production and Industry
20. George Dodd, 'Wallotty Trot' (1853)
21. 'How we get Mauve and Tyrian Purple' (1860)
22. 'Progress of the Sewing Machine,' Bow Bells (1865)

VII. International Influences and Echoes
23. 'Latest from Paris' (1876)
24. 'Death of the Leader of the Fashionable World' (1895)
25. 'A Japanese Village' (1885)

VIII. Coda: Reflecting on the Victorians
26. Woolf, 'Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century' (1910)

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Index