The 19th century was regarded as the Golden Age of Steam. In , the first railway was built from London Bridge to Greenwich. In , the first underground railway in London was completed and this changed the 19th century London for good. There are several more Victorian London maps on the mapco site. You can read more here: Poor living conditions. The traveling became a lot more easy and middle class and the wealthy class used this mode of transportation.
The railways also helped in the expansion of the London city. The wealthy classes migrated to the suburbs leaving the poor in the inner city areas. In London, the first railway to be built was the London and Greenwich Railway. The fashion capital of Britain was the city of London. In the mids, women basically wore corsets, balloonish sleeves and crinolines. These crinolines flourished during the s and s. A return to the West End for the award-winning jukebox musical charting the rise and eventual break-up of s rock'n'roll Get advice and assistance from a London Expert.
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Buckingham Palace. Natural History Museum. Trafalgar Square. Check in. Check out. Booking multiple rooms? The turban was a popular form of fashionable headdress from the s until s. Inspired by interest in the classical world and exotic ideas of the East, the form and style of fashionable turban changed frequently.
This tartan turban, with its emphasised front and velvet banding is typical of styles of the mids. Traditional Scottish dress and tartan in particular, had been popularised in the late 18th century by the Prince of Wales, later George IV.
Tartan appears frequently in fashion plates of the first two decades of the 19th century, mostly in the form of accessories such as shawls, ribbon belts or turban style hats such as this.
This light summer bonnet fits easily onto the head and protects the eyes and face from the sun whilst creating a strong but simple silhouette. Women's fashion of the early s drew heavily on themes from the classical world. A surge in interest of antique sculpture, painting and architecture, due in part to excavations of ancient Greek and Roman sites, such as Pompeii, led to a vogue for clean lines, unadorned fabrics, draped shawls and hair worn close to the head.
This suede hood exemplifies a new direction in fashion which emerged towards the end of the s. Reacting against the futuristic minimal fashions of the preceding years, designers began to look towards flowing forms, natural materials, hand-craft and traditional fabrics, drawing inspiration from folk dress, historicism and romanticised ideas of a gypsy lifestyle. This hood consists of a close fitting cap with an extending piece of fabric, known as a bavolet, covering the neck. The bavolet is attached to the cap with leather ties and has scalloped edging, decorated with perforations and embossed circles to give a hand-tooled effect.
The piece was designed by George Mallard, a London based milliner who established his business in under his own name. In the company was renamed Malyard Hats.
Known for his innovative and fashionable hats, Mallard designed for both men and women and catered to the retail and wholesale trades. The company ceased trading in upon Mallard's retirement. Silk and silver thread woven in a design of leaves Egypt Museum no. Her third husband, whom she married in , was Group Captain Thomas Loel Guinness, a Member of Parliament died and an heir to the Guinness beer fortune.
She owned seven homes, with a full wardrobe in each so that she would never have to pack or wait at customs. The couturier Charles James began his career as a milliner in Chicago. He opened his own shop in under the label 'Charles Boucheron'. In he began designing dresses using the same 3- dimensional constructive approach found in millinery. James referred to himself as a 'sartorial structural architect'. This hat is made of one piece of grosgrain silk fabric which is cut and folded in an origami style to create a peaked hat with a crown which flows into a high blunt brim.
The hat is a great example of James's structural approach and his talent for creating volume out of flat materials. With great energy and determination, Sir Cecil contacted the well-dressed elite of Europeand America to bring this lasting monument to the art of dress.
The collection was exhibited in , accompanied by a catalogue which detailed its enormous range. This hat was designed by Madame Suzy, who first rose to prominence on the Parisian fashion scene in the s. Suzy was known for her exotic hats and colour combinations. Her boutique at 5 rue de la Paix was an incredibly popular destination for both fashionable Parisiennes and visitors to the city. During the war Madame Suzy designed hats for the American market.
She closed her business in the s. The large red and white straw braids from which this hat is woven give an artisanal feel to the structure of the hat. The crown of the hat is cleverly sunken in but rises into a little point at the centre. The brim is heavily decorated with water lilies and the hat has a red veil with a large honeycomb pattern. Worn tilted forward on the head, this style of 'perch' hat was popular from the late s and throughout the Second World War.
In the early years of the s, women's fashion was firmly focussed on the upper part of the body. This hat is made from a base of straw plait, carefully stitched together to form the high crown and dramatic brim. The straw has been covered entirely with velvet and subsequently decorated with wide silk satin ribbons which have been carefully pinned into place.
The ends of the ribbons have then been cut into a zig-zag finish. Bonnet trimmings were constantly changed and updated in order to give a new look, and as such ribbons and trimmings are often pinned into place as opposed to being sewn, especially on a fabric such as velvet which would mark easily. Until the midth century, black dye was often created from wood components and was notoriously unstable, often fading to a brown or purple shade. The velvet on this bonnet has faded softly to a dark brown but the ribbons retain their colour.
This striking hat is constructed around a simple, unlined suede cap which fits close to the head and is joined down the centre back by an intricate zig zag seam. The hat was donated with matching gloves and would have been worn for evening occasions. It was designed by the House of Reboux. It was originally found along with eleven others in an old house in Worship Street, City of London. In England, the manufacture of caps was of sufficient importance to merit control by Act of Parliament from onwards.
The 'Cappers Act' of stated that every person above the age of six years excepting 'Maids, ladies, gentlewomen, noble personages, and every Lord, knight and gentleman of twenty marks land' residing in any of the cities, towns, villages or hamlets of England, shall wear on Sundays and holidays except when travelling , 'a cap of wool, thicked and dressed in England, made within this realm, and only dressed and finished by some of the trade of cappers, upon pain to forfeit for every day of not wearing 3s.
This act was intended to keep domestic production alive, as caps were outmoded by this date and there was a danger that a fall in demand for them would have a detrimental effect on the makers. This cap is fairly small, and, as a result, it has always been assumed that it belonged to a boy.
In these drawings the rounded caps worn by adult men are relatively small, worn off centre, on the side of the head rather than resting on top of the head.
Nonetheless, the head for which this cap was intended was not large. An alternative explanation of its size is the possibility that it might have shrunk over the hundreds of years of its existence. There is however no obvious sign of shrinkage. Knitted or felted caps were designed to be warm and waterproof, some protected the neck, some had ear flaps and many were trimmed with ribbons to imitate expensive silk versions.
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