The life that we know, what we were taught at school and what is in our books has witnessed very important events in our universal history, from wars to revolutions and thousands of other events. But certainly quite apart from the events that are really important, it is the dress style what marks an era or a generation.
El nineteenth century It has witnessed many important events for our evolution as humans and has become great stories for humanity. As I said before, to identify a time, we always look at the way the inhabitants of those years dressed and the nineteenth century was not far behind on that issue.
The men of the XNUMXth century bourgeoisie they always wore tails with wide shoulder pads, a waistcoat and a bowtie or wide ties. Then the tailcoat would be adjusted almost by the middle of this century by wearing a short vest and a large tie. The men who were not so wealthy wore a silk sash and a jacket. The frock coat was also widely used, which was a kind of long jacket, the style of all of them was to wear mustaches, long curly hair, and sideburns.
All the Ladies They used the silk mantilla and combs a lot; skirts made with up to 14 meters of fabric were very fashionable. The Mirañaque style comes from the first half of the XNUMXth century where designs became simpler, a greater volume was given to the wrists, the underwired petticoat appeared, the improvement of fabrics opened the way for a great variety of materials for skirts. The Polisón style began in the second half of the XNUMXth century, most of the dresses had two separate parts (the skirt and the bodice), the skirts lost the volume that characterized them.
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