The World of Dress

This print illustrates the new common fashion trends that were not just circulating in Great Britain but also, as the poster states, Paris, Vienna, and New York. There is a woman in a (previously mentioned) bell-shaped skirt, with an hourglass figure. This is a reflection of common trends of the time. Corsets were still widely popular, and women's fashion was borrowing from men's with tight shirtwaists which accentuated thin waists. Also visible is the woman's puffed sleeves, another common trend among the 1890s and 1910s. 

C. Foulkes. 'The World of Dress. New Number Now Ready'. Colour line-block print poster. Great Britain. c.1895.

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1895