Women's fashion & appearance from past times

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The endless layers of clothing a woman had to put on in the early 1900s each morning to get dressed.







(This style ended sometime during world war 1, and was replaced by the rebellious 1st wave feminism 1920s flapper look).


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Hundreds of women stamp their punch cards in the early 1900s to start (or finish) work at the Westinghouse Electric Factory in Pittsburgh.







(The above video is an original film from that time, but has been highly modified by being colourised, enhanced, slowed down, and had sound effects added. The original film is in black and white, fully silent, and moves a lot faster due to the fact that all movie cameras between the 1880s to the 1920s could not reproduce real life movement & motion at accurate speeds. Nevertheless the unmodified version is below)




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Mister Darcy...

 

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The endless layers of clothing a woman had to put on in the early 1900s each morning to get dressed.







(This style ended sometime during world war 1, and was replaced by the rebellious 1st wave feminism 1920s flapper look).

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I guess that seems like a lot to a man but it's not too much more than what modern women wear really...

Most of the "layers" in this video are just petticoats and a bustle which is just part of the fashion of the time. Women wear Spanx (a modern corset) and nylons just the same nowadays.

The "Flapper" was always associated with a "Floozy" colloquially in everyday life and was absolutely not accepted by everyday people of the time. There were actually a lot of very interesting longheld fashions at the time that still exist today:

 

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There is an archaic female show of respect and greeting, the curtsy :

Curtsy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Do any of you ever do it?
That Wikipedia article is worth a read, and look at the pictures..

The German term is Der Knicks

Knicks (Geste) – Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org

I can't believe what it says in there (does not seem to be in the English wiki) -

Zur Blütezeit der höfischen Kultur im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert unterschied man in Europa den Knicks „en avant“ (beim Eintreten), „en passant“ (im Vorbeigehen) und „en arrière“ (beim Verabschieden).

Basically that in days of old there were 3 variants of the curtsy, one when you entered the room, a second when you walked past someone, and a third kind when you were leaving again. I think I may have observed that in period films.