#late bustle

[marzipanandminutiae]

Ok but I wanna hear your opinions on early vs late bustle. Personally I vastly prefer early I would rather look like a floofy cake than a butt shelf but my boss definitely disagrees.

I’m with you. A bit less floof for me, but I much prefer the softer, more gradual- and, I think, more graceful -lines of the Early Bustle period. 1880s should have stuck to natural form instead of going full-on Ass Shelf(TM). In my opinion.

Though even I have to admit, Late Bustle is definitely a Luk if you’re into that sort of thing.

[historicalfashion]

Satin Wedding Corset | Chicago History Museum | c. 1884

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Worth Dress | Met Museum | 1888

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Velvet and Fur Carriage Boots | Shoe-Icons | c. 1880-1890

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Dolman of Sophia of Sweden | Hallwylska museet | c. 1887

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Woolen dress | McCord Museum | 1880s

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Image of woman in velvet dress, from top of glove box | c. 1880s (1886?)

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La Mode Illustrée, September 1886

Day Dress | 1886 | Met Museum

I’m ending with the late bustle period, because it seems a good quitting place and is a fun juxtaposition with the requested early bustle period of the 1870s. Quite suddenly around 1883, bustles returned with a vengeance - but they were changed from the first bustle styles. These retained the slim, flat hips of the prior natural form period, creating a dramatic “shelf” at the back of a woman’s skirts that remained until the late 1880s, when it disappeared forever.