Over 150 period photographs are featured in this book, showing a wide variety of dress worn between 1860 and 1880.
Although some of the photographs are studio portraits by the leading photographers of the day, there are also photographs of 'working-class' Victorians: estate workers, nurses, and gamekeepers, whose sober, practical garb is in telling contrast to the lavish fabrics and impractical designs worn by those for whom they worked.
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