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A Fashionable History

Typical dress foi iaIC ¡ 85Us and early 1860s.

Editor's Note: The following pictorial essay depicts the everchanging world of fashion from the 1850s to the 1930s. Thecontrast between the restrictive clothing of the "good old days"and the freer styles of today is striking. The photographs arefrom the collection at the Historical Resource Center and fromMrs. Patricia Pate of Fort Meade, South Dakota (see photocredits).

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Late 1880s child's dress with sash.

Silk waist front dresswith bishop sleeves, early1890s; man'sshirt has Frontenac collar,teck scarf (tie).


Upper left. 1887 dress, plainfronted waist with apron front

over-dress, side pleated flounce;upper right, early 1880s

traveling eostume with lace Jabot,suit trimmed with braid:

rigfjt, walking costumewith kilt-pleated skirt,

mid-î880s.


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Right, man in Mackintoshcoat and planter's

hat; left, single-breastedfly front sack overcoat

and bowler hat.


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Wedding dress, 1895;man wearing cutaway coat.

Wedding dress, 1900s.


Wedding dress and going awaysuit on display atRobinson Museum, Pierre, 1907.



Shirt waist with fancy high standing collar.

Shirt waist with pin watch.


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Infant's Christening slip

Single-breasted squarecut Union suit, boater hat,dongola kid button shoes.



Edwardian suit,Renfrew Plain standing collar.

Double-breasted suitwith chesterfield collar, shirthas St. Leger collar.



Ladies ' au tomobilejackets and coats. 1900-04.¡I is possible thateach woman trimmed herown hat.

Two button cutaway sack, 1900s.


Princess-Style child's dressmade of madras, 1910; womanwearing silk waist: below,women's taiior-made suits withshirt waists, leg-of-muttonsleeves, wanda hats,1900-05. Manwearing buffalo coat.



Ladies' wrappers with balloon sleeves, about ¡910-13.


Ladies' dress in 1918 with empirewaistline; below, changeable

taffeta partyfroek with scalloped hem,

1924; shoes-front strap slipper.



County auditors in front of Capitol Building in Pierrein 1929. Woman in belted coat is wearing

a Swagger coat. All the women are wearing cloche hats.Man, front left, is wearinga Fedora hat;

the flat hats are golf hats.


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All illustrations in this issue are the property of the South Dakota State Historical Society except those on the following pages: p. 156, top left, p. 163, top, p. 164, top, p. 166, bottom, from Mrs. Patricia H. Pate, Fort Meade; pp. 159 and 223, from Robinson Museum, Pierre; pp. 171 and 190, from Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minn.; p. 173, from Paul L. Hedren; p. 181, from National Park Service, Fort Laramie National Historic Site; p. 181, lower right, from Gordon Chappell Collection; p. 182, from Department of the Army; p. 224, from W. H. Over Museum, Vermillion.

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