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1873 CE
This fashion requires an underskirt, which is heavily trimmed with pleats, flounces, rouching, and frills.
This fashion will be short-lived (though the bustle will return again in the mid-1880s) and will be succeeded in the mid-1870s succeeded by a tight-fitting silhouette with fullness as low as the knees: the cuirass bodice and the princess sheath dress.
Images
Detail of "Too Early" by James Jacques Tissot (1873). Original in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.
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West Europe
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