Alice Loxton is just so completely adorable. I feel like anything she feels will be immediately translated into whole body expression, and when she's happy or excited, this is an utter joy to watch. :)
Just visited the fashion museum in Bath earlier this month. While the play costumes are the focus of this video, the actual historic dresses on display are breathtaking. Definitely worth a visit if you’re into historical fashion.
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im not in to fashion much but i do love reading historical romances. so seeing the cloths the heros and heroine would wear is defiantly something i would love to see.
A great insight to fashion through the ages Alice. One has to wonder what the future holds for fashion and how that will be looked back on in the decades that follow that. It's great that the museum in Bath not only shows the fashion through the ages but intends to keep updating the collection as time moves on. Thanks for sharing.
Not wearing a corset back then probably would have felt like NOT wearing a bra and then going out! Lol. Feeling awkward and like people can tell etc. Love this video, I'm a huge fan of history (women's history included)
A suggestion would have been on the historical dresses what occasion/use were the specimens suitable and how high up and/or down the social strata did the items reach.
LOVE this channel and LOVE Alice Loxton! I am a huge history buff, and I usually have a hard time watching history documentaries because they tend to over-dramatize things to make it interesting but in doing so they stretch the facts. But when you have Alice Loxton on board, no need for over-dramatization, history itself is entertaining!!
Red carpet dresses started 20 years ago? Cher and Bob Mackie have entered the chat! Great video though, I love how she puts on a dress and immediate gives it the all-important twirl test, I mean, aside from whether it has pockets it's definitely about the twirl!
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You know most people didn’t dress in stuff like this? Most of clothing throughout history has been very utilitarian and dull in comparison, and only the rich dressed like this. There’s some absolutely amazing clothing available now with exquisite detail.
The curator Rosemary was a gem. Loved Alice too. Very jealous of both their jobs. What an inspired idea to have facsimile costumes to try on. Really brings clothing to life and helps people understand the practicalities of dress and dressing. I’ve never been to the Museum in Bath, now on my bucket list.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🌟🌟🌟☺️☺️☺️
There are so many things to say about corsetry, but one I wish was brought up more often is: they're still worn. They're often built right in to those red carpet dresses. That's how those strapless looks stay up, and how those giant skirts don't drag down the actors wearing them. Funny no-one fusses over a contemporary woman striding down a red carpet bending a rib. And no-one faints either.
It’s called a slip dress for a reason! 😂 The ladies of the past would’ve been shocked. Though the Victorian ladies were even shocked by the *Regency* ladies’ comparatively exposed style, of the (relatively) immodest, sensual way their own mothers and grandmothers dressed, which is of course so Victorian of them. While Alice’s little sundress certainly helped make trying on the garments much simpler from a production standpoint, I thought the whole thing suffered as a historical fashion showcase. The effect of gowns’ designs was spoiled by how they were huge and just hung on her, and time off-camera could’ve been taken to pin them into a better fit. As it is shown, none of the beautiful details could really stand out. The differences in silhouette are hard to see when they’re all hanging like sacks. I think they should’ve presented the originals more closely; these mock-ups at the museum aren’t for history tv, they’re for visitors to get to have some dress-up fun and cool photo opportunities. This video wasn’t very good, imo, more I think about it. Time to go love on my snoring dachshunds!
“Incomplete underclothes” is exactly what I thought of her (bra-less) slip of a dress. Though it now occurs to me that the choice to wear what is essentially a SLIP, (an undergarment that, regrettably, seems to exist no more), was made to facilitate the trying on of bulky dresses-and thus makes perfect sense.
Just wonderful that Alice showing historical women's fashion and she definitely brings it out very well. Stunning!!! Which is one of the reasons why I love the Victorian era not just men's fashion but women's fashion too. 🎩🎩
Sorry to say I was really disappointed by this video, given it’s titled “How to dress for all occasions in the 18th century” when in fact only one dress (the first) was an 18th century replica. As much as 19th century fashion is fascinating in itself, detailed information about, and examples of, the way people dressed in preceding centuries is more difficult to come by online. As someone primarily interested in 17th and 18th century fashion I’m afraid this was a let-down. Please choose more accurate video titles in future! ☹️
Yeah, I mean, if the example is not really like the dress at all, what is the point? I assume this is part of the museum experience (? Which is cool) but there are so many in depth historically accurate dress maker/wearers on UA-cam, this is…underwhelming.
Such a smart young lady, very impressed with your love of history and amazing personality. She reminds me of Lucy Worsley but with her own take on things.
I could not see if anyone has contributed this but as a historical fashion (and therefore corset) wearer,, I love wearing corsets!! These were made to measure garments and would fit perfectly. They give really good back and chest support, if women really hated wearing corsets they would have gone out of fashion :)
I think the first dress, the yellow and pink one, looks even better without the undergarments. While perhaps losing in formality and grandiosity the look of the dress losing its stiffness and avoiding a conciencious overtight look, now is left to fall richly around the body displaying a soft but very pretty luxuriousness.
I prefer the blue dress worn underneath the others. ;) It is fun to notice that men wore skirts in ancient days, tights and frilly frocks, but now these are for women. Cant wait for the evolution of women's briefs.
The red carpet dress looks nice. I understand why they sold well. High performance fabrics and reuse does matter. It was fun to look how those models look like on a young woman.
Now that’s looks very good, my favorite type of dress was the first one because I like 18th century dresses and even better the powdered grey hairstyles!
Yeah, for obvious reasons most of the working/middle class garments didn't survive, as opposed to the more formal stuff that might have been worn a few times then put away into storage
Alot of interesting information about how fashions changed with the introduction of new materials and mechanical inventions that made clothes available for all. Great program!
i work in 18th century fashion history and was like no nonononononno when the gown didn't close in the front and the petticoat was sewn in and she didn't have a shift or stays until the lady explained its so regular visitors can pop it on and off lol too quick to judge! of course they know what they're doing :)
I was expecting more of an idea of how I could build an 18th century wardrobe, like how many shifts would I need, how many day dresses, evening dresses, cloaks etc. make that video, please! Hehe
That's what's interesting about now vs. the past. Because everyday people would wear the same thing. The same things meaning underlayers and clothing. For feminine dress: Shifts, stays/corset, padding! (not talked about enough), petticoats, and dress. Just in fabrics that worked for their class and were affordable to them. The SILHOUETTE was what was fashionable. You wore the underthings and cut of clothing that allowed you to have the fashionable silhouette that matched all across the socioeconomic spectrum and boom you were in fashion. Also you didn't have to change your actual self to be in fashion. You wore the support garments and padding that got you to the fashionable silhouette. (Tight lacing your corset or wearing an ill fitting corset was what generally lead to discomfort. Otherwise it was a support garment that well supported the back and bosom. I said bosom, don't remove my comment YT!) So you'd have a structure garment shaping you and would pad out anywhere that needed it, if fashion called for it, and that was that. Fashion through all of this meaning what society expected you to wear for any occasion/activity as well as actually being in fashion. Which we are both still beholden to today.
@@Emthe30something Working class people would have worn clothes that weren't made of the expensive fabrics, and were much more simple than what the wealthy wore, eg: not having all of the flounces or the extra decorations like the scallops on the white Regency style gown.
I want to dress in plain Victorian style clothing. I am retired and sick and had to move up north where it is very cold. I think it will work best with the weather here
I liked all the dresses except that pink "fluffy" one from the 20th/21st century. It was too revealing and needed an underskirt or petticoat. I love how Alice did the runway model bit while wearing the Georgian and Victorian attire! 😁 I think women's clothing were more intricately and carefully made before the 1960's. I find most of the women's clothing styles of the 19th century beautiful.
As a high schooler, 1969-1973, I was very much into retro-now vintage-fashion. I adored the design, fabric and superior construction of women’s suits, which I wore to school, and fancy dresses, which I wore to concerts and gigs.
you really missed the point here. the last dress, which you don't like because it's too revealing, is perfect example of the shift over the 20th century to underwear-as-outerwear the hosts briefly mentioned. it's not different than any other dress they displayed; it's a continuation of the evolution of fashions.
A little disappointing for fashion history fans. Too general and whimsical of an approach to a complicated subject. The dressing up probably seemed like a good idea at the time, and gave Alice the presenter an opportunity to flounce around in a few mock-up examples. Alice, (bless her)is stick-thin, and the outfits she tried on were obviously way too big for her, so it was hard to picture the “shape” each outfit would have displayed. However, I longed to peer into the display cabinets and drool over the real thing. Maybe skip the dressing up next time and concentrate on the authentic dresses.
it's Kendall Jenner dress and its high fashion designed by italian designer Giambatista Valli it has been world renowned by vogue etc. you clearly have no taste whatsoever and whatever you wear is ghastly.
What is she talking about “red carpet dresses” being a “21st century thing”. They did not “start” 20 years ago! I truly don’t know what she would specifically mean to make that accurate. Gowns worn purely to be photographed on the red carpet? Been going on much longer. The rise of the Internet only changed the places we viewed images and how many more get seen. And there are different types of celebrities who are being admired and imitated - a much wider definition of “celebrity” than just “movie star”. But red carpet walks have been going on MUCH longer than 20 years. I really keep trying to figure out what she meant. This footage is obviously very much edited down, and I’m sure she said a lot more, but I can’t think what else she could’ve been saying that could make that comment accurate.
That what is known as verdugado. Those circles that let the skirts move. Very famous in Spanish courts, with plane front or carton de pecho and chapines. ( shoes)
Alice not only looks and dresses like a teenager, she acts like one. The purpose of a corset wasn’t to “suck one in”, it was to support the bust, and give the foundation and shape for the dress. Also, early on, many dress parts were pinned to the stays/corsets.
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The white dress from the early 19th Century, with madras lace, and made of Muslim, which I had no idea about, is very nice. More wearable. The bonnet goes perfect with it.
First off: well done for not dissing the corset and stays; as asking "did women in the time like corsets" would be like saying "do women in the 21st centuary like wearing bras and occasionly some of them wearing spanks to get in to high fasion clothing for a photo shoot or events..." Secondly: I understand that the clothes that she put on were a one size (doesn't) fit all for trying out in the museum and that it would be outrageous if she were to try on actual period garments however if you are going to entitle your documentary 'evolution of women's fashion through the ages" 1: there should be way more ages represented and 2: there are plenty of good precision replicas (in all shapes and sizes) made by skilled crafts people (cos tube is full of them) who would have (I'm sure) been happy to help out and provide dresses and the appropriate under-garments to make the dresse work properly if they had been asked! What a shame to miss this opportuity to not only show properly reconstrusted, historically accurate outfits but also to show case the amazing talent of these people who are keeping old skills alive...
I think the point of the video was not to teach people about history of dress, but to show case the Fashion Museum and what it has to offer for visitors.
The displays look good, the presenter does her jobs, but the pseudo replica dresses are a good example how some modern museums dumb down history to make it presentable to a supposedly dumb public. I was very disappointed at this presentation. Either work with the displays, or look for historic costume makers or living history groups representing the period. There are such gorgeous works that could have made it into this video but weren't...
I sort of agree, but as the museum lady said at the begining, this is for visitors to try on, it would make it much less accesible and expensive for the museum to make it with the right period undergarments and aproppiate size for every person, though I agree that there should be a way to cinch the important parts down a little so that it conforms more to the period shape
Hey how about you do an 18th century dress up where you dress up as an 18th century aristocrat, and I will like to see the makeup and powdered hairstyle.
Did the petticoat drawing they showed at 2:40 look like it was from the 1890's/1900's or am I tripping? Edit: oh I just realized it was supposed to be a general example of a petticoat not one actually from the 1760s
Alice should have brushed up on fashion eras and fabrics,before troubling this gracious expert. Why have Brits adopted the American habit of dumbing things down ? Stay in school kids. That's what's cool.
Alice Loxton is just so completely adorable. I feel like anything she feels will be immediately translated into whole body expression, and when she's happy or excited, this is an utter joy to watch. :)
This is my sweet spot. The intersection of history and fashion, and how they inform each other. Give us more please!!!
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Me too!
Okay not only is this a superb video due to Alice and Rosemary's expertise, but I adore the editing choices lol. So fun and engaging!
Just visited the fashion museum in Bath earlier this month. While the play costumes are the focus of this video, the actual historic dresses on display are breathtaking. Definitely worth a visit if you’re into historical fashion.
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im not in to fashion much but i do love reading historical romances. so seeing the cloths the heros and heroine would wear is defiantly something i would love to see.
Alice's giddiness at being invited to try the clothes on is a whole-ass mood lmao
A 'whole-ass mood lmao'? Really? This isn't a BTC video or whatever that Chinese girl band social media folk speak in ebonics about.
A great insight to fashion through the ages Alice. One has to wonder what the future holds for fashion and how that will be looked back on in the decades that follow that. It's great that the museum in Bath not only shows the fashion through the ages but intends to keep updating the collection as time moves on. Thanks for sharing.
If you look at the last 20 years of fashion, it hasn't changed that much. The biggest difference would be the colours, I would guess.
Love Alice Loxton! She's a great presenter who knows her history and can add some humor in her videos!
Thank you, thank you, thank you History Hit! PLEASE do more episodes about clothing through history.
Guess the poor, servants and land workers weren’t wearing these.
Not wearing a corset back then probably would have felt like NOT wearing a bra and then going out! Lol.
Feeling awkward and like people can tell etc.
Love this video, I'm a huge fan of history (women's history included)
Love watching documentaries about history of fashion. 💯💯👏👏. There's only few of them
Rosemary is a wonderful presenter in her own right ❤
A suggestion would have been on the historical dresses what occasion/use were the specimens suitable and how high up and/or down the social strata did the items reach.
LOVE this channel and LOVE Alice Loxton! I am a huge history buff, and I usually have a hard time watching history documentaries because they tend to over-dramatize things to make it interesting but in doing so they stretch the facts. But when you have Alice Loxton on board, no need for over-dramatization, history itself is entertaining!!
What fun content! Alice clearly was happy to take part in this historic fashion show. Well done!
Red carpet dresses started 20 years ago? Cher and Bob Mackie have entered the chat!
Great video though, I love how she puts on a dress and immediate gives it the all-important twirl test, I mean, aside from whether it has pockets it's definitely about the twirl!
Sarah Bernhardt, Evelyn Nesbit, Virginia Wolfe, Molly Bloom, Lilly Langtry, Lady Randolf Churchill Jennie Jerome, Queen Consort Alexandra, Alice Keppel have entered the chat in photographs and newspapers walking on Red Carpets . And Vicereine Viceregal Lady Mary Victoria Curzon has Just Stepped Onto “The Red Carpet” wearing The Gold and Silver Peacock 🦚 Green Beetle 🪲 Zar &Dozi Dress , Delhi Embroidered Fashion House Kishan Chand for The House of Jean- Philippe Worth Of Paris for The Consummating Night Celebrations of King 👑 Edward VII Coronation Celebrations Showcasing and Highlighting India’s Contribution To The World Of Fashion. The Dress 👂 Heard and Seen About Around The World 🌏🌍🌎Because it Celebrated The British’s Vast Empire and India’s 🪡🧵Unmatched Embroidery Industry and Mary Victoria was a Girl from Chicago USA 🇺🇸. So It Made Simultaneous News 📰🗞📯📜📃📄📮📬🎨✍️🐎🚂Around The World 🗺🌏🌍🌎 over a Century Ago.
funniest thing about fashion for women: THEY USED TO ALWAYS HAVE POCKETS! NOWADAYS THEIR POCKETS ARE EITHER SUPER SMALL OR NONEXISTENT
Love the historic fashions; I think its the attention to details that is not as apparent in modern fashions since the 1960's.
You know most people didn’t dress in stuff like this? Most of clothing throughout history has been very utilitarian and dull in comparison, and only the rich dressed like this. There’s some absolutely amazing clothing available now with exquisite detail.
1960s, not 1960's. 60s, not 60's. Sixties, not sixtie's.
Girllll...I would be overwhelmed to be able to try on those dresses ❤️❤️❤️❤️
The curator Rosemary was a gem. Loved Alice too. Very jealous of both their jobs. What an inspired idea to have facsimile costumes to try on. Really brings clothing to life and helps people understand the practicalities of dress and dressing. I’ve never been to the Museum in Bath, now on my bucket list.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🌟🌟🌟☺️☺️☺️
There are so many things to say about corsetry, but one I wish was brought up more often is: they're still worn. They're often built right in to those red carpet dresses. That's how those strapless looks stay up, and how those giant skirts don't drag down the actors wearing them.
Funny no-one fusses over a contemporary woman striding down a red carpet bending a rib. And no-one faints either.
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@@AroundTheWorldWithEase Not even. The built-in evening gown corsets have boning. But yes, also Spanx.
Alice arrives at the fashion museum wearing what the ladies of the past would have considered almost a shift. Incomplete under clothes.
It’s called a slip dress for a reason! 😂 The ladies of the past would’ve been shocked. Though the Victorian ladies were even shocked by the *Regency* ladies’ comparatively exposed style, of the (relatively) immodest, sensual way their own mothers and grandmothers dressed, which is of course so Victorian of them.
While Alice’s little sundress certainly helped make trying on the garments much simpler from a production standpoint, I thought the whole thing suffered as a historical fashion showcase. The effect of gowns’ designs was spoiled by how they were huge and just hung on her, and time off-camera could’ve been taken to pin them into a better fit. As it is shown, none of the beautiful details could really stand out. The differences in silhouette are hard to see when they’re all hanging like sacks. I think they should’ve presented the originals more closely; these mock-ups at the museum aren’t for history tv, they’re for visitors to get to have some dress-up fun and cool photo opportunities.
This video wasn’t very good, imo, more I think about it. Time to go love on my snoring dachshunds!
“Incomplete underclothes” is exactly what I thought of her (bra-less) slip of a dress. Though it now occurs to me that the choice to wear what is essentially a SLIP, (an undergarment that, regrettably, seems to exist no more), was made to facilitate the trying on of bulky dresses-and thus makes perfect sense.
Exactly. And short so her clothes wouldn't show under the last dress.@@nanwilder2853
The happiness meter was too cute!
Definitely the most adorable historian I ever saw…
Alice did exactly as I would’ve, swish swish swish the skirt’s. lol love the Victorian best
Just wonderful that Alice showing historical women's fashion and she definitely brings it out very well. Stunning!!! Which is one of the reasons why I love the Victorian era not just men's fashion but women's fashion too. 🎩🎩
This is such a awesome place to make things accessible to the public and easy to try on.
Alice looks so regal and elegant in those dresses- they really suit her
The great content never stops from History Hit!
Lovely summer dress, looks cooling.
Everything Alica presents is a treat.
What's with the 1880 petticoat illustration when we're talking about 1770 fashion at 2:50?
Sorry to say I was really disappointed by this video, given it’s titled “How to dress for all occasions in the 18th century” when in fact only one dress (the first) was an 18th century replica. As much as 19th century fashion is fascinating in itself, detailed information about, and examples of, the way people dressed in preceding centuries is more difficult to come by online. As someone primarily interested in 17th and 18th century fashion I’m afraid this was a let-down.
Please choose more accurate video titles in future! ☹️
Undergarments really are key!
Yeah, I mean, if the example is not really like the dress at all, what is the point? I assume this is part of the museum experience (? Which is cool) but there are so many in depth historically accurate dress maker/wearers on UA-cam, this is…underwhelming.
The correct term is under-lovelies.
Alice the constant professional
Very knowledgeable on the subjects that she discusses.
From your American friend 🇺🇲👍👍
I enjoyed listening to Rosemary. She is very knowledgeable about fashion and history. I'd like to talk with her for a few hours with a cup of tea. 🌷🌹🌷
Such a smart young lady, very impressed with your love of history and amazing personality. She reminds me of Lucy Worsley but with her own take on things.
This is an amazing museum. I spent hours in there
How?? It's tiny
@@monkeytennis8861 I spent time looking at each garment carefully
Great fun. I liked the Victorian one the best.
I could not see if anyone has contributed this but as a historical fashion (and therefore corset) wearer,, I love wearing corsets!!
These were made to measure garments and would fit perfectly. They give really good back and chest support, if women really hated wearing corsets they would have gone out of fashion :)
Beautiful Alice.
I went to the fashion museum in bath too...well worth a visit!
I think the first dress, the yellow and pink one, looks even better without the undergarments. While perhaps losing in formality and grandiosity the look of the dress losing its stiffness and avoiding a conciencious overtight look, now is left to fall richly around the body displaying a soft but very pretty luxuriousness.
Definitely the white empire line dress. Loved the Jane Austen style dresses in films.
History & Alice…..Bliss 🥰
Wow this channel is LEGIT awesome💯
I heard your interview on Sunday morning talking about your book "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?" It was a great interview!
They don't have anything to do with that book, what a weird comment.
I prefer the blue dress worn underneath the others. ;) It is fun to notice that men wore skirts in ancient days, tights and frilly frocks, but now these are for women.
Cant wait for the evolution of women's briefs.
The red carpet dress looks nice. I understand why they sold well. High performance fabrics and reuse does matter. It was fun to look how those models look like on a young woman.
Now that’s looks very good, my favorite type of dress was the first one because I like 18th century dresses and even better the powdered grey hairstyles!
I will want to go to Bath and even more now!
An interesting selection of clothes, but what is missing who would have worn them? Everyday folks, or the upper ecolons? That is a bit missing
mostly upper class as the material were expensive to get then i think
Yeah, for obvious reasons most of the working/middle class garments didn't survive, as opposed to the more formal stuff that might have been worn a few times then put away into storage
Alot of interesting information about how fashions changed with the introduction of new materials and mechanical inventions that made clothes available for all. Great program!
Oh she gonna walk the catwalk for us lol I love it
i work in 18th century fashion history and was like no nonononononno when the gown didn't close in the front and the petticoat was sewn in and she didn't have a shift or stays until the lady explained its so regular visitors can pop it on and off lol
too quick to judge! of course they know what they're doing :)
I really enjoy the evolution of fashion. I liked how history was already reusing and repurposing their clothes. Thanks!
This is such an amazing video thank you for this!
I was expecting more of an idea of how I could build an 18th century wardrobe, like how many shifts would I need, how many day dresses, evening dresses, cloaks etc. make that video, please! Hehe
You looked fab in the bonnet alice,was great to see the style of the times.
I know in windy areas they weighted the hems with lead. That would make dresses heavier.
Not by much, weights in the size range of coins or fishing weights. No heavier that going around with a handful of pocket change in pants pockets
The fashion expert was great
What I would like to know is what ordinary working people wore at the time!
That's what's interesting about now vs. the past. Because everyday people would wear the same thing. The same things meaning underlayers and clothing. For feminine dress: Shifts, stays/corset, padding! (not talked about enough), petticoats, and dress. Just in fabrics that worked for their class and were affordable to them. The SILHOUETTE was what was fashionable. You wore the underthings and cut of clothing that allowed you to have the fashionable silhouette that matched all across the socioeconomic spectrum and boom you were in fashion. Also you didn't have to change your actual self to be in fashion. You wore the support garments and padding that got you to the fashionable silhouette. (Tight lacing your corset or wearing an ill fitting corset was what generally lead to discomfort. Otherwise it was a support garment that well supported the back and bosom. I said bosom, don't remove my comment YT!) So you'd have a structure garment shaping you and would pad out anywhere that needed it, if fashion called for it, and that was that. Fashion through all of this meaning what society expected you to wear for any occasion/activity as well as actually being in fashion. Which we are both still beholden to today.
@@Emthe30something Working class people would have worn clothes that weren't made of the expensive fabrics, and were much more simple than what the wealthy wore, eg: not having all of the flounces or the extra decorations like the scallops on the white Regency style gown.
The dress and the sneakers look surprisingly good together.
I want to dress in plain Victorian style clothing. I am retired and sick and had to move up north where it is very cold. I think it will work best with the weather here
Alice rocks!
What fun trying on historical fashion, I envy you. I d be having my own little photo shoot
I liked all the dresses except that pink "fluffy" one from the 20th/21st century. It was too revealing and needed an underskirt or petticoat.
I love how Alice did the runway model bit while wearing the Georgian and Victorian attire! 😁
I think women's clothing were more intricately and carefully made before the 1960's. I find most of the women's clothing styles of the 19th century beautiful.
As a high schooler, 1969-1973, I was very much into retro-now vintage-fashion. I adored the design, fabric and superior construction of women’s suits, which I wore to school, and fancy dresses, which I wore to concerts and gigs.
you really missed the point here. the last dress, which you don't like because it's too revealing, is perfect example of the shift over the 20th century to underwear-as-outerwear the hosts briefly mentioned. it's not different than any other dress they displayed; it's a continuation of the evolution of fashions.
I watch for Alice Loxton. She is enchanting.
A little disappointing for fashion history fans. Too general and whimsical of an approach to a complicated subject. The dressing up probably seemed like a good idea at the time, and gave Alice the presenter an opportunity to flounce around in a few mock-up examples. Alice, (bless her)is stick-thin, and the outfits she tried on were obviously way too big for her, so it was hard to picture the “shape” each outfit would have displayed. However, I longed to peer into the display cabinets and drool over the real thing. Maybe skip the dressing up next time and concentrate on the authentic dresses.
can Alice stay? i keep getting attached to presenters and then they leave :(
Happiness meter 😀 wonderful
this girl is amazing
Great one Alice, I loved the Victorian gown 😍
Good vid but you should consider changing the title to indicate "from the 18th to 20th Century".. Most of the video is about the 19th century.
I think I liked the blue dress the best.
Why is this one not available in the app?
I just put this on for Alice Loxton lol
I love Alice the girl of my dreams, wonderful.
I liked your green dress best! 😂
@15:58 That's Kendall, not Kylie. But I guess the Kardashians are kind of interchangeable.
That Kylie Jenner dress is ghastly.
it's Kendall Jenner dress and its high fashion designed by italian designer Giambatista Valli it has been world renowned by vogue etc. you clearly have no taste whatsoever and whatever you wear is ghastly.
Can you demonstrate the fashion from the neolithic to the Regency period? To fill the gaps.
History woman I love you.
What is she talking about “red carpet dresses” being a “21st century thing”. They did not “start” 20 years ago! I truly don’t know what she would specifically mean to make that accurate. Gowns worn purely to be photographed on the red carpet? Been going on much longer. The rise of the Internet only changed the places we viewed images and how many more get seen. And there are different types of celebrities who are being admired and imitated - a much wider definition of “celebrity” than just “movie star”. But red carpet walks have been going on MUCH longer than 20 years. I really keep trying to figure out what she meant. This footage is obviously very much edited down, and I’m sure she said a lot more, but I can’t think what else she could’ve been saying that could make that comment accurate.
Alice is a goddess
That what is known as verdugado. Those circles that let the skirts move. Very famous in Spanish courts, with plane front or carton de pecho and chapines. ( shoes)
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Alice Loxton in a corset...what's not to like about that?!! 👍🏻
Alice not only looks and dresses like a teenager, she acts like one. The purpose of a corset wasn’t to “suck one in”, it was to support the bust, and give the foundation and shape for the dress. Also, early on, many dress parts were pinned to the stays/corsets.
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Why so rude to our sweet Alice? 😋
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Good show Alice!
Why are these HH gems on YT for free but not available on HH streaming for which I pay $80 a year??? I won't be paying for a second year.
The white dress from the early 19th Century, with madras lace, and made of Muslim, which I had no idea about, is very nice. More wearable. The bonnet goes perfect with it.
The fabric is called muslin, which is a light cotton weave. Muslim is someone who practices the Islamic faith.
Great video! My favorite dress: the yellow, 18th century one
Alice Loxton in a short skirt....I'm in!
First off: well done for not dissing the corset and stays; as asking "did women in the time like corsets" would be like saying "do women in the 21st centuary like wearing bras and occasionly some of them wearing spanks to get in to high fasion clothing for a photo shoot or events..."
Secondly: I understand that the clothes that she put on were a one size (doesn't) fit all for trying out in the museum and that it would be outrageous if she were to try on actual period garments however if you are going to entitle your documentary 'evolution of women's fashion through the ages" 1: there should be way more ages represented and 2: there are plenty of good precision replicas (in all shapes and sizes) made by skilled crafts people (cos tube is full of them) who would have (I'm sure) been happy to help out and provide dresses and the appropriate under-garments to make the dresse work properly if they had been asked! What a shame to miss this opportuity to not only show properly reconstrusted, historically accurate outfits but also to show case the amazing talent of these people who are keeping old skills alive...
Its a free youtube channel - how would they pay for all that?
I think the point of the video was not to teach people about history of dress, but to show case the Fashion Museum and what it has to offer for visitors.
The displays look good, the presenter does her jobs, but the pseudo replica dresses are a good example how some modern museums dumb down history to make it presentable to a supposedly dumb public. I was very disappointed at this presentation. Either work with the displays, or look for historic costume makers or living history groups representing the period. There are such gorgeous works that could have made it into this video but weren't...
Yeah, they're all so big on here, plus none of the proper undergarments, really doesn't give a good idea of the proper silhouettes
I sort of agree, but as the museum lady said at the begining, this is for visitors to try on, it would make it much less accesible and expensive for the museum to make it with the right period undergarments and aproppiate size for every person, though I agree that there should be a way to cinch the important parts down a little so that it conforms more to the period shape
I have a bit of a crush on Alice Loxton
Hey how about you do an 18th century dress up where you dress up as an 18th century aristocrat, and I will like to see the makeup and powdered hairstyle.
Alice is a legend.
Love your work 👍
Did the petticoat drawing they showed at 2:40 look like it was from the 1890's/1900's or am I tripping?
Edit: oh I just realized it was supposed to be a general example of a petticoat not one actually from the 1760s
Alice should have brushed up on fashion eras and fabrics,before troubling this gracious expert. Why have Brits adopted the American habit of dumbing things down ?
Stay in school kids. That's what's cool.
I'm curious where they found some of these dresses? Who did they belong to?