100 Years of Fashionable Womenswear: 1830s - 1930s | V&A

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Discover changing silhouettes and key fashion developments across 100 years of British and French womenswear: from a Victorian wedding dress inspired by Indian textile motifs, to an Edwardian lace day dress, and a 1930s silk evening gown designed by Charles James. Assistant Curator Claire Allen-Johnstone unpicks the fascinating details of these different garments, revealing how fashions can be cyclical, often referencing the past, but with a modern twist.
00:30 Revealing the Victorian dress
01:44 Construction and key details
02:40 What is Paisley?
04:11 Queen Victoria’s wedding dress
05:07 Revealing the Edwardian dress
05:49 The ’s’-bend silhouette
07:47 Construction and lace details
07:50 Signs of alterations and damage
09:07 Revealing the 1930s dress
09:32 Who was Charles James?
10:40 Historical references
11:40 Modern details
12:33 Materials: silk and plastic
13:19 Changing fashions over 100 years
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@starababa1985 9 месяцев назад

These dresses may have survived precisely because they were so tiny and therefore difficult to be handed down or made over. The same is true of old sample shoes which were too small to be worn by most women.

@jacindabezaldo5714 9 месяцев назад

Yes, and they also were owned and worn by wealthy women who may have only wore the items a handful of times (or in the case of the wedding gown, just once) and then packed them away for posterity. Women of more average means would not have the luxury of wearing an item only while it was fashionable or for a special occasion and would have likely worn a garment out until it required mending or remaking. ❤

@evelynwald9132 9 месяцев назад

Loved seeing these dresses from the past and all of the information you were able to provide. Just curious as to how tall you are because the two earlier dresses look like they were worn by very short women. At first, I thought the first dress might have been worn by a young girl until you explained the family history. Thank you for your excellent video with all the details of the dresses shown & explained.

@Angel-ts8rc 9 месяцев назад

That is true. However it also true that people were smaller. We know this bc of science of medicine, as well as historical documents tracking these things.

@bethbartlett5692 9 месяцев назад

I was fortunate to wear a size 5 shoes, when they were made in that size, then the went to a 6, and after I reached my late 40's (Child then M-pause) I got to a 6 and am quite pleased ! 😉

@kikidevine694 8 месяцев назад

@@Angel-ts8rcvery true, but the example from the 1840"s is well below the average for the time. The wearer would have been tiny even by the standard of the time

@madisonmontgomery03 9 месяцев назад

I love this subject matter, I'd love a whole series of these videos examining the different dresses in the V&A collection

@vamuseum 9 месяцев назад

Noted! Make sure you're subscribed 👀

@ah5721 9 месяцев назад

same!

@georgina3358 9 месяцев назад

Me too, i'd love more similar content

@silshine 9 месяцев назад

same i love this so much!!!

@erinmcdonald6076 9 месяцев назад

Agreed, yes please!

@neatodude3339 9 месяцев назад

I never realized edwardian gowns/shirts were made with so many little pieces of different types of lace!

@corinnetaylor2565 9 месяцев назад

Ms. Allen-Johnstone is so articulate - informative, clear, interesting. Well done!

@phranerphamily 9 месяцев назад

You could make this a weekly series and I would watch as I'm sure others would as well. This was fascinating and the curator was interesting and lovely to listen to.

@kitkat8231 7 месяцев назад

The edwardian dress is breathtaking. I hope this style comes back. Its so elegant and feminine.

@chocolatbownie35 9 месяцев назад

the yellow dress is just GORGEOUS

@xXcrimsonxroseXx 9 месяцев назад

This was so well done! The dresses are beautiful, and I learned so much from the commentary.

@blackorchid0000 9 месяцев назад

Wow dress number 2 is a dream!

@WheezyCatLady 9 месяцев назад

I agree! It reminds me of Mary Poppins’ dress from the Jolly Holiday scene 😍

@judithburke1539 9 месяцев назад

I agree with you. It is one that I would have enjoyed when I was much younger. So frothy and it looks lightweight. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful information with us. I'm amazed what the V and A museum has been able to discover in order to successfully preserve clothing for the future. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful examples of fashion.

@amandagreen4332 9 месяцев назад

Bernadette Banner has videos showing how the lingerie dresses were made, even referencing Mary Poppins. She hand sews and uses 19th century sewing machines.

@WheezyCatLady 9 месяцев назад

@@amandagreen4332 seen it! Beautiful. Obsessed! Bernadette is 👌

@ewanoxborrow1024 9 месяцев назад

The 1930s Charles James piece is stunning.

@jeanneblondewomanstamping9788 9 месяцев назад

The caliber of these videos from V&A is unparalleled! Just so incredibly well done, informative and thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you. 👏👏👏👏👏

@iDislikeNames 9 месяцев назад

It never ceases to amaze me how small people were. She looks like a giant standing next to those dresses!

@monicacall7532 9 месяцев назад

Fashion history is one of my favorite things to learn about. Please do more videos about the clothing that you have in your museum. When I visited the V&A some years ago my favorite section was the clothing exhibit.

@vamuseum 9 месяцев назад

Make sure you're subscribed and notifications are on! We've got some very special things to come ✨

@anti-ethniccleansing465 3 месяца назад

@@vamuseum I would never sub to a channel that continuously throws in white guilt BS comments. They ruined an otherwise nice video.

@MicaRayan 9 месяцев назад

Love the classic gowns. Quite special to see that Charles James gown. His vision were simply contemporary, pretty much ahead of his time. It seems contradicting of those exsisted within the sameness era, but still retain the essence of the whole look

@Art4ArtsSakeVideo 9 месяцев назад

I would cheerfully listen to any aspect of fashion/garment history Curator Claire cares to discuss: she is knowledgeable, well-spoken and forthright about the problematic history of some garments' content or manufacture. The dresses themselves are wonderful, even without her commentary. And do you notice how incredibly petite the women of those earlier centuries were? Great programme, look forward to many more.

@taytertot991 8 месяцев назад

I love the description of “frothy” for the Edwardian dress

@carag2567 9 месяцев назад

That Edwardian day dress is so beautiful I very nearly cried.

@sarahcullen9148 9 месяцев назад

The V&A fashion collection is huge that only a small amount is on display at any one time. I saw the brown cotton wedding dress in 1965 displayed along with other wedding dresses in various colours, many of them dark.

@astrogallus 9 месяцев назад

Charles James! THE master of structure and form. 💖

@raraavis7782 2 дня назад

Please do more videos showing off your exhibits and inventory up close! It's such a treat for those of us, who can't afford to travel and visit amazing museums in other countries.

@lurategh 8 месяцев назад

Such beautiful dresses. I've always been fascinated by women's clothing from these time periods. I'd love to be able to try them on for at least a day. It's absolutely crazy how a single person influenced wedding attire and set the cultural norm for centuries to come. I reallyyy wish colored wedding dresses would come back into fashion in the West. I'd so love to see more variety, and just think how gorgeous it'd look.

@TS-rv4hf 9 месяцев назад

This was wonderful, more please!

@debrastewart9194 7 месяцев назад

So love this!!! Thank you so much🎉

@Sarah_Naomi 9 месяцев назад

I love seeing these dresses in detail and getting the historical context of each, thank you for this video and more please!

@CosmicFreedom7777 9 месяцев назад

I loved this video, very interesting and illustrative ✨🌻🧡 Plus, still has that ASMR tone so needed nowadays 🪻Please, do more of this 🌸

@posiesblessings 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely fascinating. It’s history told through fashion - and through such beautiful items.

@ellenwood719 9 месяцев назад

Wonderful video. The V&A always does such a wonderful job!

@blissgirl9052 9 месяцев назад

Fantastic series, I hope it continues and we get to see more pieces from the collections. I'd also be so excited to see children and men's wear!

@mwil4068 8 месяцев назад

More historical fashion videos like this, please!!

@audreyh6628 8 месяцев назад

More please. Really fantastic presenter. Very very thankful to see the references to the colonial provenance of the pieces - an important step to revealing the true histories of objects

@debbralehrman5957 7 месяцев назад

Lovely video great information, thank you.🌹

@annikanilsson6152 9 месяцев назад

Amazing - thank you for posting! 🙂

@marshaspears9142 7 месяцев назад

Perfection in all aspects! Thank you for the lovely, engaging yet informative presentation. Please, more of the same. Perhaps in ten year segments.

@mathildewichmann6066 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for a very informing and intersting explanation of this. Very well done thank you

@treasurechest123 9 месяцев назад

Fabulous! Long enough to learn something, short enough to keep one’s attention. Thank you!

@jilltagmorris 9 месяцев назад

This was so interesting!

@Diana-gn8rp 9 месяцев назад

Love this. Thank you for wonderful narration.

@VetsrisAuguste 9 месяцев назад

When I saw the thumbnail for this video, I immediately assumed the 1930’s dress was a ballet costume. I had forgotten that initial impression until she said it was called La Sylphide. At which point my inner dialogue responds with, “obviously!”. Speaking of ballet, and underwear as outerwear, those arm puffs from the first dress are a mainstay of the classic ballet tutu since the 1830’s. Which is itself a take on underwear as outerwear. I never realized until this moment just how risqué the early images of the ballerina were. The ballet La Sylphide, the very work that introduced that aesthetic to the art of ballet premiered in the year 1832.

@lucyholmes9627 9 месяцев назад

Wonderful content, thank you so much!

@Terri_MacKay 9 месяцев назад

The yellow Charles James dress is gorgeous, as is his Four Leaf Clover dress. It was a bit shocking when the camera panned out, and I saw how tiny the brown dress is. I'm guessing that Ms Allen-Johnstone is of average height (by seeing her standing next to the yellow dress), so whoever wore that wedding dress must have been 5', at the most.

@ThinWhiteAxe 7 месяцев назад

Probably partly why it was put in a box and never worn again.

@nancytestani1470 9 месяцев назад

So fascinating…all fashion..

@Shwettyapple 9 месяцев назад

Stunningly beautiful examples from their eras, thank you!

@vamuseum 9 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@lesleycameron9132 6 месяцев назад

Loved this - so fascinating learning about the different styles and changes to fashion over the years. All gorgeous 😍

@robertafierro5592 5 месяцев назад

The Smocking alone is incredible! You learn so much from these wonderfully written documentaries. Anyone who's into clothes as much as I am would just love this series!

@keithhawthorne5630 7 месяцев назад

What I find incredible is, seeing the dresses lined up chronologically, including the narrator, how much taller we as humans have grown in 200 years.

@jj-if6it 9 месяцев назад

My favourite museum in London, and completely free! Thank you

@GoddessNeith 9 месяцев назад

I do so love Charles James designs.

@maryhamric 9 месяцев назад

Lovely!!! I'd love to see more of these.

@cillamoke 7 месяцев назад

I love the shape of the Brown dress!! Stunning!!

@Autumn74 9 месяцев назад

Love these videos ❤

@waretaSL 9 месяцев назад

Best age of fashion tbh. So expressive

@cannyexplorer5357 9 месяцев назад

I have my mothers wedding dress which is now 80 years old. It was bought from a department store in London called Bourne and Hollingsworth in Oxford Street. It was a beautiful store to visit but is long gone.

@joaquinribeiro2941 9 месяцев назад

So entusiast . The curator Is genial .

@shannonnefra9738 9 месяцев назад

❤thank you for sharing your knowledge of the history and intricacies of making these beautiful dresses. 👏🏾🌹I love your teaching style!

@elizabethbrink3761 9 месяцев назад

Superb video! I love reading 19th and 20th century British novels so this is giving me lots of insight into what the women in those novels would be wearing.

@kidmohair8151 9 месяцев назад

I knew if sorted the comments I'd find someone upset by it being pointed out that slavery played a major role in the creation of the "riches" generated in the industrial revolution. it should be pointed out that slavery is not dead yet and is exploited by wealthy corporations and individuals to maintain the "profitability" of their enterprises.

@phoebeintheforest 9 месяцев назад

It was a complicated time. Britain maintained a neutral position in the American Civil War...Lincoln had hoped Britain would join the Union cause because of Britain's anti-slavery position and the South hoped Britain would join their cause because of Britain's dependence upon American cotton. It should be noted that British private blockade runners sent munitions and luxuries to ports in the South in return for cotton. However, by 1862, Britain had to look to Egypt and India for cotton. A large part of the novel, Gone With the Wind, deals with blockade runners as that is how Rhett Butler made his fortune.

@debbiecarter6430 9 месяцев назад

Great video, thank you. ❤

@KarenSmith958 8 месяцев назад

all three are fabulous in their own right💜

@evelynfidler6285 9 месяцев назад

Love this video, look forward to more of the same

@antoniabalazs5434 6 месяцев назад

These are so gorgeous and just fascinating amd so well presented by Claire. I find myself wishing I could see the movement of the Charles James dress with that hemine, sigh.

@jj-if6it 9 месяцев назад

How interesting to learn about Paisley!

@2FullMoons 9 месяцев назад

The Charles James gown is absolutely divine

@suzannealvin5708 2 месяца назад

Wonderful content; beautiful and informative

@AmonosArthon 9 месяцев назад

It's so refreshing to see this from the V&A after seeing so many videos from other channels on fashion "history" with no cited sources or extant garments 😅

@CelineAdobea Месяц назад

The last one is my favourite!! soo pretty 😍

@Juliana-cc4tv 9 месяцев назад

When I watched the yellow dress, I immediately recalled Aurora 😄👍🏼 Very interesting video, I liked all three gowns. Thanks

@vamuseum 9 месяцев назад

It's a bit Beauty and the Beast too, isn't it? A dress fit for a princess!

@jj-if6it 9 месяцев назад

With that first dress, the print actually looks quite modern up close

@yushi911 7 месяцев назад

The yellow is so precious and will be beautiful in any era. This is why is a piece of art itself.

@lianegraber3725 9 месяцев назад

I love Charles James's Creations they are amazing

@I_am_Lauren 7 месяцев назад

I ABSOLUTELY love the paisley print on the first dress and could see myself wearing that if I was from that time.

@frippp66 9 месяцев назад

very interesting ❤

@retrorenegade1967 8 месяцев назад

The white Edwardian dress looks a lot like my wedding dress. My wedding dress was made in approximately 1895-1905

@mslady1230 9 месяцев назад

I’d wear and want that first brown dress and a few others from this video! Seamstress were talented to be able to HAND SEW those dresses, wow!!!

@leemackie8434 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much 👏👏👏💕💗🇦🇺💗💕

@pinkimietz3243 9 месяцев назад

I want to wear dresses like that! 😍

@kathleenscullion8348 9 месяцев назад

Wonderful presentation. Please consider a selection from 1880's, 1900's and 1920's. Thank you.

@mh8704 9 месяцев назад

Whoever wore the first two dresses were pretty short! Thanks for the interesting video!

@estergoncalves8939 9 месяцев назад

💖💕💖💕💖💕 I loved. Thankful 🙏💖

@senoram4130 6 месяцев назад

So fascinating, please let us have more videos like this. I'd like to see as many of the dresses as possible from the V&A collection. In fact, after the Dior and Chanel exhibitions, why not one showcasing the wonderful exhibits stored behind the scenes in the V&A, the ones they don't have space to keep on permanent display?

@sophiesong8937 9 месяцев назад

Yes, fashion of the early 30s was quite different to the late 30s.

@bighairedmom 9 месяцев назад

It kills me I'll never get to visit here! So many treasures!

@maryannbaker9960 9 месяцев назад

Excellent presentation! However, I have a question about the provenance of the cotton textile used in the creation of the paisley fabric of the first dress. I understand India has been in the cotton trade since the 1600’s. In fact, Ghandi himself spun cotton. You mention the enslaved in the US having a hand in this cotton textile creation; I would like to question this. Since the dress was created in the UK, and the UK had not only the East India Company but British rule over India at the time, this textile more than likely came from cotton in India, as did many pashmina shawls, both authentic and faux. Is this a possibility? Thank you.

@lhillenburg 9 месяцев назад

The U.S. supplied Britain with the majority of it's cotton during this time period. The inexpensive price provided by enslaved labor contributed to Britain's reluctance to honor the US blockade of southern states during the American civil war in 1860's.

@roxannlegg750 4 месяца назад

I also cant help but notice the ascending height of the dresses - all has very small waists, but the overall height and upper body size increased too. Most people dont know that by the 1830' to 1850's or so, people were the shortest they had been since the Tudor period, and only matched in the dark ages (post Roman occupation but pre 1066). On overage by the tudor and early to mid 1600's, this period saw the average height to be similar of the early 20th C, but gradually declining to the point where by the 1830's, people were the shortest they had ever been. Heights began to increase int he late Victorian and Edwardian period, and continued thru to modern day. Its a stark contrast here with these three dresses andd altho they are isolated examples, this does represent a known trend in human variability over the centuries.

@ColleenMarble 7 месяцев назад

interesting video. Would have loved examples from every decade because so much interesting stuff was happening in fashion in those 100 years. Seems a shame to limit it to three gowns.

@eleonore59830 9 месяцев назад

thank you for sharing! reminding me that i have an edwardian dress to fix! (a lit of a later one 1910-1913 ish)

@vamuseum 9 месяцев назад

Oh wow. What a joy!

@eleonore59830 9 месяцев назад

@@vamuseum yay 🥰

@cor3944 9 месяцев назад

we've lost so much. Beauty, grace, feminity, craftmanschip and knowledge.

@marybethbasu8858 9 месяцев назад

Very interesting content! For contrast, is Claire Allen-Johnstone quite tall, or were the dresses worn by very short women?

@clarestrode6672 9 месяцев назад

As people started eating more and receiving better medical care, we got taller! I noticed too how the dresses get taller as they get later

@MTMF.london 9 месяцев назад

People were generally shorter in Victorian times. I think only from the 20th Century onwards, with better nutrition, better hygiene and advances in medicine, people become stronger, healthier and taller - and they live longer too.

@Angel-ts8rc 9 месяцев назад

People especially women used to be smaller, smaller feet too!

@paperprincess1050 7 месяцев назад

How small is the brown dress!!

@jj-if6it 9 месяцев назад

That yellow dress is gorgeous

@BeautifulTinySavages 9 месяцев назад

❤❤💃🤗💎🎀📿Beautiful dresses vintage is amazing❤❤❤

@freyashipley6556 5 месяцев назад

The Edwardian dresses are always my favourites. I'd love to know how a dress like that would be cleaned (especially under the arms).

@kerriemckinstry-jett8625 9 месяцев назад

I would 100% wear dresses 1 & 3 in different colors. Dress 2 is a pass from me... lace is pretty, but it's super impractical & catches on stupid stuff (including drawer handles, door latches, not to mention cats' claws). Anyway, white & fluffy looks hideous on me. I love that she presented us with some of the history, too, even recognizing there can be problematic history for clothing items!

@vamuseum 9 месяцев назад

Luckily the La Sylphide dress was also made in other colourways, including mauve and white! collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O352575/la-sylphide-evening-dress-james-charles/

@kerriemckinstry-jett8625 9 месяцев назад

@@vamuseum It's lovely. You have a lot of interesting pieces in your collection. You must have trouble deciding what to display!

@jpbaley2016 7 месяцев назад

I am so happy I was born near the change of the 70’s, where wearing dresses were no longer expected. I find wearing dresses repressive and restrictive.

@vickyrushton1783 9 месяцев назад

Was the sewing the person in usual? Would they be cut out daily and then re sewed in if worn again

@miriamthomas1942 9 месяцев назад

anyone know what the background music track is at the start of the video?

@kathleenscullion8348 9 месяцев назад

Please expand on the history of trousers.

@suzaynnschick158 9 месяцев назад

For scale, I'd love to know how tall Ms. Allen-Johnstone is. The 1830 gown is for a much shorter woman.

@CelineAdobea Месяц назад

I just learned today that the printed cotton fabrics first found their way to Europe from India. At first it was problematic for the European textile market who didn't have such intricate colorstories or motifs. This caused the textiles to be banned at first, but because they were so popular with their long lasting pigments and a softer feel, they were eventually not banned anymore. In France's case, the ban was lifted right as they began producing their own printed cotton.

@ritaroad 9 месяцев назад

The white dress reminds me of A Room With A View.

@ukallii 9 месяцев назад

I thought the waist piece on the third dress was a Swiss Waist, referencing the 19th century fashion to wear a corset-like belt over the dress.

@khristopherlawrence7493 9 месяцев назад

was going to say exactly that, thank you

@myrna_m 9 месяцев назад

It absolutely is! It's even more surprising that they confused it with an actual corset since they got the 1860s era right (though they were also popular at times through the rest of the century). So odd!