Hey cause you seem to be in the know Womens waist coats? Something that happened in the Victorian Edwardian time or have I just watched to many 1980s Canadian CBC shows set in that time?
No, they definitely happened!
Mostly, as you say, in the 1890s/early 1900s- that late Victorian-Edwardian period.
Bernadette Banner even made a video documenting her process of reconstructing one from an 1895 pattern book.
Go forth and live your waistcoat dreams!














