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Beautiful

She’s quite elegant indeed

thats why i get rid of the train and add lace to the bottom of my hem, just as elegant and no one steps on it

I've had similar issues with Elizabethan gowns, LOL.

theyre easy to wear until you need to go through a door

E McCreanor just squash it or lift the left part

@@Steampunk_Ocelot did you not watch the video? did you just come down here to comment such nonsense? i know this is a year old. but FFS she shows IN THIS VIDEO, over- and over and over that walking through a door is absolutely no problem

Other children? Yeah we watch this stuff too :3

Jake paul

Im young and I watch this lol

I'm 13 and love historical dresses. And I know it's been 3 years but I get really bored during quaranteen

Same!

Thank you for the advice!

Your welcome. :)

Florine Fayolle I'fe always thought it was super difficult back then. I was wrong.

Then make one for yourself. Like this lady did, by starting her own business.

You could even work at a fair during the times they are going on.

Rachael Williams omg she has a business? !!? where!!

i do Living History demonstrations, you can work in a place like a living history farm

Theater, museums, living history displays...I got to wear these gowns working in the plantation exhibit in Stone Mountain years ago...had a BLAST ... swishing skirts with a crenoline on caused an airy effect in an otherwise stiffling climate.

Well, I'm 16 but I will love to wear crinoline dresses everyday!

Well, I'm 16 but I will love to wear crinoline dresses everyday!

I'm 15 from the uk and I would love to where these dresses

I was in your shoes once. It was around that same age I first became interested in historical costumes. Now I'm in my twenties and have made many costumes for different eras, all of which I love. I'm currently working on starting a costume society in my town. Maybe you could try the same? All you need is one other person who shares your passion to get it started. There's more of us out there than you believe - we just hide very well. :)

Alana Ellyn It's cool that there are more people interested(: That's a great idea! I have a friend who is interested in historical dress as well and we've been trying to convince the drama teacher at our school to do a history-based play of some sort, mostly because we would love to wear the dresses haha. I will talk to her about starting something! Thank you!

I have a civil war ball gown and it is actually incredibly comfortable. I also love how gorgeous and feminine these dresses are.

They're so fun to wear and the best part is the mosquitoes can't get through my five layers of skirts.

Iida Salo If you aren't concerned with historical accuracy, you can order one online from bridal shopping websites. That's where I got mine, it has a drawstring in the waist so it needs no alterations to fit any size (I'm pretty skinny so that was a relief!)

There are "walking skirts" where the cut of the fabric itself drags the fabric away from your legs when you walk. I don't have one, and I'd have to do more research, but I've seen other people say it works. Alternatively, a shorter, stiff-ish petticoat that helps push away the outer skirt would work too, and is probably easier to use in today's world. Although this time it would be the petticoat itself to tangle in your legs, so maybe not?

You could also go for a corded petticoat if your wish- or put canvas or horsehair braid in the hem of your long skirts, that’ll keep them maintaining their shape and away from between your legs.

THWB Exactly so. My aunt told me when she was very young, she remembered a man sitting down on a lady's bustle in the tramcar - they used to swing them to one side to sit down. It went off with a terrible crunch. I think bustles were made of whale bone.

@@pentirah5282 no, the bustles were made exactly the same way as the crinoline. she has videos showing just these things. NOTHING women wore in the past made it difficult to sit, move around or were by any means uncomfortable

@@bethanyday3471 Thanks, Bethany. I apologize about the mention of whalebone - I realize that was mostly for corsets. However, there were occasions when ladies pushed the bustle a little bit to one side. My aunt live in that era and she had no reason to lie about the story. Where you alive then?.

Re-enactment groups re-enact certain events from history so that they can better understand what it was like to live during those times, and also so that they can help educate people about the time period. It's a lot of fun, but if you're only in it for the clothes, I wouldn't recommend it. You also need to be willing to research and learn a lot about the historical period you're re-enacting, and when you re-enact, you don't just wear the pretty dresses-- you also reenact all the hard work (constant scrubbing and heavy lifting,) living without modern comforts (air conditioning!! showers!!) and many restrictive social norms. As a re-enactor, a lot of what you do is for the sake of education, so you're also going to have to get used to having modern spectators show up to gawk you, snap pictures and ask you a lot of questions (like "aren't you hot in that" for the twelve hundreth time) so you can't have stage fright. If you do just want to wear the clothes, then there's nothing stopping you from making or purchasing historical attire just for yourself. There are historical fashion clubs in many major cities where people will dress up in their historical outfits and have tea parties, luncheons and do photo shoots, which is a good option if you want to play dress up and meet other people with similar interests but don't want to deal with all the demands of historical re-enactment.

Actually, the attire in that time was very simple to live in.

me too.but my country is tropical country...

I wish I could, too!

Me too 👗😍

Easy, just start wearing these gowns again and encourage all of your friends to do so. I am a guy and even I would give anything to wear one of these gowns.

I would but I'd have to modify them to not drag on the ground because it rains a lot in Scotland.

I love the way you wrote this comment!!!

i mean come on, the ankle is attached to the leg, and the leg leads up to the... ;3

She was joking..

But then in the paintings they were often naked, which confuses me

not a hobby - it is my job.... ;-)

You can own one :-) I live in New Zealand and if you go to the website of Dhgate.com they are in the States and are a huge online shopping site. You can buy anything, things for computers, car parts, lightning stuff, and even clothes!! I just recently purchased from there a lovely black gothic Victorian dress complete with a crinoline cage. They are made and come from China (as always) :-) You order through Dhgate.com and they get it send to you from China. They have other beautiful dresses too. The crinoline cage I got with the dress is not quite the same of course. Mine is white, and the flexible parts are from plastic, (they certainly were not that in the 1800's ha ha) But it is near to it. My dress is beautiful, I tried it on albeit with the help of my partner :-) With the plastic in that crinoline cage you have to handle it with care, otherwise it will break. You look up your size in the size chart below and order online easy!! :-) I love it, as I always wanted a dress like that when I was a kid, now I have one. Would love to put it on and wear it to town, and see the reaction of the public!!! As some modern fashions like huge trashy holes in jeans is to me hideous, not even fashion. So give it a try. Good luck :-)

minigingerbunnies I recommend learning to sew, then you can make your own!

the sizes differed depending on the purpose of the dress and occasion - but the movement in them is basically the same. Despite many satirical illustrations showing huge skirts, there is very little to show the evidence of the trly enormous cages, judging from the preserved clothing and the circumference of the skirts. also - silk was worn all the time, if you could afford it, before and during Victorian era - Worth and other designers made a fantastic use of it, but they didn't not really ' introduce' it... lots of lovely silk dresses in the 30ties, 40ties and 50ties - as well as in the decades and centuries before

Thank you.

@@debragibes4044 I doubt women would be wearing a crinoline and full skirt for mountain climbing or biking. Priorattire herself has videos of outfits women wore for horse riding, shooting, tennis, and beachwear. Karolina Zebrowska has a video of her rock wall climbing in Edwardian clothing, and like any sensible woman from the era, she doesn't have her sunday best on for rock wall climbing. Boots, breeches, a shorter skirt, and a corset that's practically just the bones sewn together.

not much - it is all cotton and linen, easy to wash in the past, and in the present. one of the reasons cotton was so popular

laartje24 I was wondering the same thing. That white dress is so beautiful that I'd be afraid to wear it! It is so elegant.

Actually, you can. They are not illegal. There are places where you would not be allowed to, but for the most part, if women simply starting wearing that, at the beginning people would just stare and then it would become normal.

+Anaterka I have used what was used in the past - flat metal bones. I used 11mm and 13mm in different models and both behave the same. You can see wire crinolines as well - so using even less of a weight and both materials were relatively cheap. From the record available we know that a variety of boning was used, especially if the crinoline was home made. I made and wore an Elizabethan farthingale made with cane as boning - and it works just as well as metal.

+priorattire thanks

Well, a guess: the better folk had their own boxes, where there is more room than on the parquet.