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A Fashionable History

Typical dress foi iaIC ¡ 85Us and early 1860s.

Editor's Note: The following pictorial essay depicts the ever changing world of fashion from the 1850s to the 1930s. The contrast between the restrictive clothing of the "good old days" and the freer styles of today is striking. The photographs are from the collection at the Historical Resource Center and from Mrs. Patricia Pate of Fort Meade, South Dakota (see photo credits). Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

Late 1880s child's dress with sash.

Silk waist front dress with bishop sleeves, early 1890s; man's shirt has Frontenac collar, teck scarf (tie). Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

Upper left. 1887 dress, plain fronted waist with apron front over-dress, side pleated flounce; upper right, early 1880s traveling eostume with lace Jabot, suit trimmed with braid: rigfjt, walking costume with kilt-pleated skirt, mid-î880s. K, I- Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

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Right, man in Mackintosh coat and planter's hat; left, single-breasted fly front sack overcoat and bowler hat. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

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Wedding dress, 1895; man wearing cutaway coat.

Wedding dress, 1900s. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

Wedding dress and going away suit on display at Robinson Museum, Pierre, 1907. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

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Shirt waist with fancy high standing collar.

Shirt waist with pin watch. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

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Infant's Christening slip

Single-breasted square cut Union suit, boater hat, dongola kid button shoes. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

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Edwardian suit, Renfrew Plain standing collar.

Double-breasted suit with chesterfield collar, shirt has St. Leger collar. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

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Ladies ' au tomobile jackets and coats. 1900-04. ¡I is possible that each woman trimmed her own hat.

Two button cutaway sack, 1900s. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

Princess-Style child's dress made of madras, 1910; woman wearing silk waist: below, women's taiior-made suits with shirt waists, leg-of-mutton sleeves, wanda hats, 1900-05. Man wearing buffalo coat. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

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Ladies' wrappers with balloon sleeves, about ¡910-13. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

Ladies' dress in 1918 with empire waistline; below, changeable taffeta party froek with scalloped hem, 1924; shoes-front strap slipper. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

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County auditors in front of Capitol Building in Pierre in 1929. Woman in belted coat is wearing a Swagger coat. All the women are wearing cloche hats. Man, front left, is wearinga Fedora hat; the flat hats are golf hats. Copyright © 1977 by the South Dakota State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.

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