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Describe articles that were called either a tournure or a
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| Answer | They were both forms of stiffened supports for the rear of
skirts. By 1869 the flounce frilled horsehair tournure
dress improver or bustle was the undergarment to own to
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What were engageantes? |
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| Answer | False undersleeves were called engageantes. Woman could
emphasize modesty by wearing freshly laundered detachable
white collars and false undersleeves. These were often made
of delicate whitework and gave an air of refinement and
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How long was widow expected to mourn in the Victorian era? |
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| Answer | In the Victorian era a widow would mourn for two and a half
years, with the first year and a day in full mourning.
During that time pieces of the crape covered just about all
of a garment at deepest mourning, but the crape was
partially removed to reach the period of secondary mourning
which lasted nine months. After that the crape was defunct
and a widow could wear fancier lusher fabrics or fabric
trims made from black velvets and silk and have them
adorned with jet trimming, lace, fringe and ribbons. In
the final six months a period called half mourning began.
Ordinary clothes could be worn in acceptable subdued shades
of grey, white or purple, violet, pansy, heliotrope, soft
mauves and of course black.  |
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Which material was used in such vast quantities in the
1890s that Courtaulds built a textile empire on the sales
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| Answer | Crape for mourning. Crape (always spelt with an ?a? to
indicate mourning crape) was the most used fabric for
mourning clothes. Crape was dull looking silk gauze like
a crimped and stiff textured material and mostly dyed the
deepest of blacks, although white crape was used for the
widow's cap. Black was the chief mourning colour in the
immediate months after a death for deepest mourning.  |
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What does 'crin 'mean? |
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| Answer | Crin' is French for horsehair so the word crinoline
suggesting a crin lining was used for any garment area that
was stiffened to give shaped foundation. Strip hem linings
and a sleeve head are just two examples where crin was
used. Later by 1850 the word crinoline began to mean the
whole of the beehive shaped skirt. It was then only another
step to call the later artificial or cage hooped support
frame petticoats after 1856, crinolines.  |
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When was the Cage Crinoline or Artificial Crinoline
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| Answer | The Cage Crinoline or Artificial Crinoline was invented in
1856.  |
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Which Queen wore widow?s weeds until she died in the C20th? |
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| Answer | Queen Victoria wore widow?s weeds until 1901.
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What C19th fashion item was called a Coal scuttle? |
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| Answer | A Coal Scuttle was a fashionable Victorian bonnet style
piece of large headwear. It was shaped like a coal scuttle
of the day.
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Which fabric is flax fibre made into? |
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| Answer | Linen.  |
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Name three items that teddy boys would have worn? |
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| Answer | In England Teddy Boys or Neo-Edwardians sported long low
thigh or to knee jackets with narrow contrasting lapels and
matching contrast drainpipe trousers. Their hair was
slicked back into a style with long sideburns. They wore
crepe soled shoes which helped with the dance movements of
jiving. Their girlfriends wore eye make up and took every
fashion to excess.  |
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Which designer brought messages on T-shirts into mainstream
fashion when she protested against nuclear missiles in the
1980s? |
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| Answer | Katharine Hamnett.  |
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Which year was the first face lift done? |
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| Answer | The first face lift was done by Eugene Hollander of Berlin
in 1901.
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Which fashion house has always designed glorious exotic
colourful prints since the 1960s? |
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| Answer | Pucci.  |
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What is the fibre source of angora fibre? |
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| Answer | The angora rabbit produced hair which is made into angora
or bunny wool.  |
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What is the fibre source of mohair fibre? |
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| Answer | The angora goat produces fibre which become mohair.  |
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