Talk:1890s in fashion

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This is a terrible article. Ethnocentric, gender-biased, badly-written. Zora 23:28, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Tried to fix it up a little. Anyway, it's now part of the series... Churchh

Added aesthetic dress/tea gowns, and links the prior decades to their fashion articles. PKM 02:27, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Can we make this whole article a little less, well, class-centric. This is about what upper-class people wear, with hardly a mention of middle- and working-class fashions. 82.10.98.240 15:01, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

working-class fashions

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Haabet (talk • contribs) 14:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC).

As I have said elsewhere, I tend to think of "fashion" as what is fashionable, that is, the clothing of the upper or upper-middle classes. Lower and working class clothing changes on a different timeline, and up until the mid-19th century at least changed very slowly indeed. I would suggest a separate series on working class and rural clothing, probably by country or region, linked to this series.

That said, there is certainly room to add reference to how fashion was modified or simplified away from court and the "big city". How do readers feel in general about incorporating a broader spectrum of society?

I am concerned that these surveys are getting rather long in some cases. - PKM 19:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)