Dressing up in a 1914 fashion 

Es que se estaba por venir el fin del mundo...😑

Getting ready to defeat Germany

The 1812 Overture is an interesting choice.

Isn't she?

WW1......

What a wonderful memory!!!

My grandmother was born the same year, but pictures I have of her show that she was very happy to abandon the corset as soon as she was decently able to do that. I do recall seeing her put on a girdle if she was dressing up to go out, but I don't think she missed the old way of dressing at all. She always wore her pearls, however, and now I am lucky enough to own them.

What a beautiful memory of your great grandmother! I remember my grandmother talking about corset stays too - and that they were made of whalebone. Yes, from whales!

She sounds like a great character

Cheri Fulsebakke it looks cool but no thank you.

Cheri Fulsebakke I wear Victorian dresses when I go to fancy parties but that’s cuz I’m goth as fuck lol

I guess we can if we want. 😊

I asked this question on Quora but it was combined with a question which had little to do with fashion.

That's an interesting speculation - I don't know how WWI changed women's fashion, but WWII certainly got women wearing trousers. But post-war 1950's fashions were the antithesis of factory-wear with the wasp-waist and full skirts - very feminine! In the 1970's trousers re-emerged as pant-suits as a greater percentage of women entered the work-force - and it seems there's no turning back.

Thank God, I don't have suffer through this clothing system! Comfy in my boyfriend jeans and tshirt 😁

Many, many women and girls worked in factories from the late1700s on. Long skirts could be lethal around fireplaces (the father of the Bronte sisters said there were so many funerals for people (esp children) whose clothes had caught on fire, that he forbade curtains in his house. There was more mechanization though, escalators, elevators, cars. More information type office jobs that were suitable for women with some education. Things were bound to change. In the zeitgeist.

The real problem was wearing so much clothing in the summer time. Women had fainting spells and probably were not able to eat to much because of the corset, no wonder you don't see fat people there.

@@NoMore-gc3gi actually, there were a lot of different sized women back in the edwardian era. Also, you might wanna check Karolina Żebrowska's video on edwardian clothes in summer

You were clothes suitable for the season. Women fainted exactly as much as nowadays, and you can eat a lot in a corset. And if you look st the photographs and extant garments, you would see people of all sizes there. Queen Victoria wore a corset all her life.... didn’t stop her eating and putting on weight st all

@@NoMore-gc3gi Fainting spells were a literary device more than a common occurrence. Writers of the day would emphasize how delicate and romantic it was for a woman to pass out at any large emotional burst.

It's going to be 28C this weekend - just in time for all the Lincoln Steampunks to be decked out in our waistcoats, bustles, corsets and petticoats and gloves. Phew! Update post-event. I was wrong - it was 30C with no air conditioning!

...you get a tan from standing in the English rain...

often, as we work wearing that stuff - and play in it too!

I was thinking the same thing... A lot of stupid comments from people who clearly don't appreciate the subject...

Genau !!!

Fashion didn't change nearly as quickly as for those who could afford it. She probably wore what was acceptable (corset, for instance) and easy to work in. She also could have gotten a lot of hand-me-downs

My grandma grew up at a farm up north in Maryland. It was very rural at the time. My mom told me that my grandma would wear a dress, with a pettifor (I don’t know how to spell it but it looks like an apron) that matched the ribbons in her hair when she was a kid. Everything had to match, how ever the pettyfor is pretty practical for play time so the dress doesn’t get soiled.

She was born 1927- so I’m speaking of the 30s.

That sort of style for little girls was popular in the victorian era and saw resurgences all throughout the 20th century. In the 1930's most girls wore very simple dresses that were loose and straight, sort of like a chemise. Flour and feed companies started selling their products in floral printed sacks because often that was the only fabric mothers had available to clothe their daughters, especially in rural areas. Most likely your grandma wore a "feed sack" dress at some point!

My Grandmother was born in the 1920s, also grew up on a farm, but I dont think she's ever worn a corset. Its amazing how much can change in such a short time.

Me too I love this era

So young?? I am 43, it so young any more/ and with a 20 years if experience :-)) thank you for your lovely comment:-)

As a kid I once watched my grandmother put on her girdle. It was a production. I decided that I never wanted to wear one.

Which meant they were made to last!

I feel like people who complain about modern styles are just looking in the wrong places. Current fashion is probably at a 40-50 year high. I mean, culottes, longer, more flowy dresses and overall more formal styles becoming more and more fashionable again. Which is of course not what you will find if you consider the Kardashians as style icons, but overall I'd say we just came out of the 80s, 90s and 2000s. Sweatpants are still objectively so much better than crop-tops paired with low-waist jeans. Now that was a true low point of fashion history. Way worse even than people deciding to dress like dolls in the 1820s or people deciding that bums should be shaped in a way that makes it possible for tea to be served on them. I guess the lesson here is: Fashion has its ups and downs. We are probably currently slowly getting back into an up, and some would consider the teens and twenties a down (which I don't get except for the wedding dresses. If you want a good laugh, Google 1920s wedding dresses because almost all of them just look like someone wrapped themselves in a mix between a curtain and a table cloth). Either way, please don't be that person that's always cranky about how horrible our modern times and how values and modesty are depleting.

Your point is well taken, and I hope you're right. I love the 1920s, but the styles just are so unflattering on most women.

@@Karen-gh8gv Well, yes, but I feel like that's sort of the point of the 20s. The styles look sort of unflattering, but that's what they are supposed to do. With feminism having some of its strongest years and such. I always read it as 'Hey, look, we're wearing what we want and don't care whether you think it looks nice or modest or appropriate or not.' That of course doesn't mean it's how it was, but just let me dream. I personally absolutely love the late 20s/early 30s, because you do get some sort of waist again, but you still definitely get the whole 20s vibe.

Yup... it was a reaction against the super-femininity and curves of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Don't know if you already know of Amanda Hallay, but she has a channel called The ultimate Fashion History where she actually uploaded lectures on the history of fashion from ancient times to today. It's really fascinating and fun, you'd probably enjoy it!

I think her videos have found their way into my recommended a few times, thanks for the recommendation. The 'it doesn't necessarily meany that that's how it was' was generally more of a hint to the fact that fashion, like all things societal, isn't just influenced by one thing, and especially the twenties always get so much of the 'Oh, look: feminism! Women dressed like men bc gender roles started to change.', you know, people tend to act like the 20s were this magical time when gender roles declinded rapidly and everybody was just equal, when in reality, the 20s were followed by the 30s, 40s and finally the 50s, all of which were just incredibly big on reinforcing these roles, which just shows that the 20s didn't bring the big social change everybody says they brought, but instead were more of a glorified phase. And yes, they did also bring some long lasting change and built a solid foundation for feminism (after all, voting rights for example were here to stay) but yeah, it's not like it was one world war with too little men at home suddenly we have gender equality. I'm sorry, as you can see, I get a bit too emotional about vintage fashion.

bookmouse770 I think it was 50’s

I love those old ladies-the original vamps. They were really old by the time I came around

It’s very elegant

Not comfortable at all.Thats why wemon passed out,from the heat.They used hand fans and held combersome umbrellas

Using umbrellas to shield yourself from the sun is still common, and you have to contextualize this in the fact that air conditioning was not really a thing then.

@@spaceoddessy1 Wrong era, passing out was rarely an issue for these women. The 1910s were NOT the 1900s - for the first time ever a woman's dress went above her ankle, and dresses became far looser and corsets far less constricting. It's true they were still restrictive, but compared to just 5 or 6 years prior, 1914 was literally freedom.

seriously no reason whatsoever not to do so. one lady i know wore this style/time period for a couple of weeks, including to work and had NO problems and i believe she said she only had two or 3 comments (all positive). if you love a time period Enjoy it. WEAR it.. 20s 30s 40s 50s are some of the most classic times for ladies clothing and TOTALLY wearable now.

Go ahead and wear what you want to! Heaven knows those clothes are much more attractive than the degrading rubbish they make now. People will probably love it. Besides people wear all kinds of styles now. Long dresses are quite popular right now so go ahead. Life is short wear what you want.

From this to Flappers in the span of 10 years...

senpai is mine indeed

They did it until the mid 60's......

Do you make all of this?

Yes- see the credits

very similar layers - just different fabrics used for winter! wool , flanels, furs etc, plus a coat for worn instead of silks and light cottons.

Thank you.

yes i bet a corset is more supportive for the back.

Im making a pair of stays for that reason!

And near impossible to find if you don't fit mainstream sizes

So do you think that corsets were more confortable than bras? 😂

@@Aurora-dq4lt Yes. A corset distributes the weight of the breasts over the whole body, instead of placing it on the shoulders and a small band underneath them. Corset comfort depends on how well fitted it is, and how tightly you lace it. Most women laced snugly enough for support, but not tightly enough to be uncomfortable or restrict breathing. However, upper-class women (who didn't need to do anything requiring physical effort) tended to lace tighter, to enhance their beauty (which was all most of them had to offer to potential rich husbands, like the trophy wives of today). Also, bear in mind that girls wore corsets every day, from a fairly young age. So, they were used to wearing them, and their growing bodies adjusted to the corsets. Our grandmothers, who wore girdles while growing up in the 1950s, had curvier figures than we do, because their growing bodies adapted to the firm girdles. That's why true vintage dresses don't fit our modern bodies, unless we wear strong shapewear under them.