Photographic Date Refinement - Fashion Feature
Ladies' Sleeves 1860 - 1910
Chart: Incidence of large sleeves in ladies fashion: 1860 - 1905
Author: S Harrison.
Analysis
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1860 - 1866:
Ladies sleeves were large and flowing from shoulder to wrist containing an excess of fabric almost like a cape in design.
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1867 - 1892:
Sleeves became fitted from shoulder to wrist.
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1892 - 1902:
Sleeves once again became voluminous but only between elbow and shoulder, the area below the elbow remained fitted (leg of mutton sleeves).
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1902 - onwards:
Sleeves started to become loose fitting again from elbow to shoulder but without the excess of fabric seen previously.
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Images courtesy - "Grafton, Carol Belanger, Victorian Fashion - A Pictorial Archive, Dover Publications 1999".
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Wide Brimmed Hats
Chart: Incidence of wide brimmed hats in ladies fashion: 1890 - 1920
Author: Marcia Stather.
Analysis
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1900 - 1910:
The data set indicates that 88% of all photographs featuring wide brimmed hats could be dated to this period.
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Image: Sarah Ann Crimlis nee Scales, Filey, 1891 - 1959
Image courtesy - Penelope Crimlisk.
Photographer: Unknown
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References
1) Victorian and Edwardian Photographs - Roger Vaughan Personal Collection. http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/
2) A short description of fashion and photographic changes after 1860. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~victorianphotographs/time/time.htm
3) Pols, R. Dating Nineteenth Century Photographs. The Federation of Family History Societies (Publications)Ltd 2005
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