#1860s

[ghw-archive]

Mother-of-pearl hair comb, mid 19th century

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1860 Marta Czorba, later Okęcka (photo by Karol Beyer)

(National Museum, Warsaw)

[emmikay]

Dressing the Jellicles-

Historical Clothing for Demeter

Shaduko Necklace and Earrings

1860s

Bonham’s

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Johann Georg Meyer (1813-1886) "Die Ziegenhirtin" ("The Little Goat Herder") (1869) Oil on canvas

[countess--olenska]

Evening dress made of pattern-woven light blue silk damask with motifs of lilies of the valley and leaves, decorated with wavy pleated silk borders, pearl borders and pearl embroidered flowers with large pearl pendants, 1860s.

Gothenburg City Museum

[historical-fashion-polls]

submitted by @edwardian-girl-next-door 🤍💛💙

[vintageeurope]

Lviv, Ukraine 1860s

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

[clove-pinks]

In 1861 the governor of Illinois pleaded with President Lincoln to "take the starch out of the Missouri secessionists," and I am absolutely enchanted with the phrase. We should start saying "take the starch out of them" again.

TAKE THE STARCH OUT OF 'EM, BOYS!

[humanoidhistory]

Total eclipse of the Sun, July 1860, illustrated by astronomer Warren de la Rue.

[artgsposts]

Konstantin Flavitsky

Princess Tarakanova (1864)

[blondebrainpowered]

A dress made of cotton muslin, gilded metal thread and Indian jewel beetles (sternocera aeqisignata), Britain, 1868-1869 CE. Over 5000 beetle wings or parts of wings were used to decorate this dress.

Now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

[miamaimania]

Journey through Time: William Morris's Day and Night, a Tale of 1860s

[emmikay]

Dressing the Jellicles-

Historical Clothing for Demeter

Cape (back)

1863-1867

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[la-belle-histoire]

Guinevere and Iseult: Cartoon for Stained Glass, William Morris. 1862.

[frostedmagnolias]

Brooch with a Bird's Claw

c. 1860-1870

Scottish

The Walters Art Museum