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Victorian bustle skirts are bouncy, flurry and utterly feminine and are a reminder of a fashion era of the 19th Century. Its rustling style makes it move and flow gracefully with the body, indicating a style that's not only bold but also daring. A variation of the vintage bustle skirt Not all body shapes can pull off the bustle skirt successfully but if worn with a body-squeezing, shape enhancing bustier or corset, most women will look wonderful in one. Today's interpretations of the bustle skirt are equally as spectacular as it was over a century ago and is a style that can be worn to any special event - special occasions, weddings, Halloween parties, and costume parties too. Spectacular styles of a vintage-inspired bustle skirt with fancy-tiered ruffles. Typically Victorian fashion, bustle skirts possess fancy tiered ruffle designs and wasn't that easy to put on but today's interpretation of the vintage skirt comes with zipper closures at the waist and are easy to sli...

Fashion is meant to be enhancing and flattering to the silhouette of men and women. Being fashionable means being stylish, up-to-the-minute trendy and/or chic. And even though being stylish means all of these and more, it is also meant to be safe and to die for! To die for! But literally? Yes if you’ve ever heard of the muslin disease . This was a terrible and deadly illness that was a result of being fashionable in the late 18 th to early 19 th century.   At the time, it was the rave for ladies to “dampen themselves with water before wearing their muslin gowns”.   Because the skin was wet, the muslin gowns clung to their bodies revealing all their curves, bosom, backside, and all. Talk of being utterly revealing! This was a way to show off their figures and reveal the absence of underwear! And what did this style of wearing wet clothes result in? Disease! Asides being unhygienic, there were severe cases of illnesses such as pneumonia, bronchitis, influenza, and even death!...

The phrase intimate wear includes underwear and lingerie for women that’s personal to her physical body and unlike outerwear, inner wear consists of items that are worn specifically for specific parts of the female body – the upper and lower parts.  There wasn’t much of a variety of intimate lingerie for both parts of the body for the nineteenth century woman. The most important item to the fashionable woman was the all-important constricting corsets made with whale or steel bones.     This singular item was basically meant to give a woman an hour-glass shape, popularly referred to as a figure 8. This was the mark of beauty! Wearing a corset all day long was torturous, and it could never have been worn without a helping hand, or two! But it was an important piece of intimate wear to have.  Luckily towards the late 1880s, a women’s movement campaigning against the damage the corset of the time did to ribs and a woman’s internal organs caused by tight lacing, invented...