Civil War Fashion

What did the women wear during the Civil War Era? The women wore at least seven layers under their dresses everyday. The first layer would be their bloomers/plantlets, which were made of cotton and would come below the knee or to the ankle, depending on which they were wearing. Usually, a young lady would wear those that would go to the knee, the more mature and older women would wear them longer, to the ankles. The second layer was the Chemise. It wasn’t made of more than a cotton nightgown that would be worn under the corset to keep it from becoming soiled by bodily oils and from pinching the lady. The third layer was the corset Corsets were not used to get the very thin waistline, or to give a woman a busty boost. They were simply designed …show more content…
Most of the designers were french and lived in France. Also thanks to the french designers during this era fashion magazines became a thing. The one lady establish Rococo fashions was Louis XV’s mistress Madame Pompadour. She had a passion for her pastel colors and the light. The happy style is how it came to be known as Rococo, and was how light stripes and floral patterns became a trend. Towards the end of the period, Marie Antoinette was one who became the leader of French fashion, as did her seamstress Rose Bertin. Extreme embellishment was her trademark, which ended up majorly fanning the flames of the French Revolution ( "Baroque/Rococo 1650-1800 | History of …show more content…
The word fashion gained popularity in different languages during the Renaissance (“Renaissance Fashion: The Birth of Power Dressing”). The women had very fancy fashion, but so did the men. The men wore tailcoats, frock coats, cutaways, and greatcoats. For pants they wore trousers, long johns, drawers, and union suits. Men wore vests or sack coats with their sack suit. They were also allowed to wear various different colored dress shirts if they didn’t want to wear their plain white dress shirts. Little boys and girls wore the same things as the men and women (“Civil War”). So in Conclusion in the south the women wore delicate clothes and how they dressed ranked them in the community. The fashion also differed depending on if they lived in the north or south. The women got most of the clothes that they wore from french designers that live in France. Their clothes differed also from if they were slaves, poor, or