Dress 1832–35 European By the 1830s, dresses had grown so voluminous as to require padding and numerous petticoats to support the large sleeves and wide skirts. In this dress, the extraordinary sleeves appear to compete with the skirt in width. The simultaneous inflation of sleeves and skirt created, by contrast to the corseted waist, the illusion of a smaller Dress 82289

---

Size: 1660px × 1868px
Photo credit: © MET/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: