# @ditavonteese on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2021-05-17T02:16:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dita Von Teese (@DitaVonTeese) — https://gondola.cc/DitaVonTeese

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#ReGlam • ladame.vintagefashion 

A trip through Paris, France during The Belle Époque (footage from 1896-1900). The films were taken by the Lumière company. 

The 1890s were a period of change. As the century drew to a close, the world began to move away from the stiff, moralistic, Victorian Era. Urban centers were growing, and new technologies, such as the introduction of electricity into clothing manufacturing, produced a boom in the ready-to-wear market. Women were enjoying new levels of independence; during the decade the number of women employed outside the home almost doubled. The “New Woman” of the era was an intellectual young female who worked, cycled, and played sports.Dress historian James Laver wrote: „The old, rigid society-mould [sic] was visibly breaking up… For the young, there was a new breath of freedom in the air, symbolized both by their sports costumes and by the extravagance of their ordinary dress. It was perfectly plain that the Victorian Age was drawing to its close.” 

In the first years of the decade, the silhouette was a continuation of the late 1880s style, with the notable development of a small vertical puff at the shoulder. Skirts were bell-shaped, gored to fit smoothly over the hips. The width at the top and bottom of the silhouette was balanced by a nipped waist, to create an hourglass effect. Around 1897, the silhouette began to slowly shift with the introduction of the straight-front corset. Supposedly designed as a healthier alternative, these new corsets forced a woman’s chest forward and hips backward into a curvilinear “S” shape, that became the dominant silhouette by 1900.

Alma Bridge (1900)
Notre-Dame Cathedral (1896)
Moving walkway at the Paris Exposition (1900)
Tuileries Garden (1896)
Place de la Concorde (1897)
Avenue des Champs-Élysées (1899)
Passing of a fire brigade (1897)
The Eiffel Tower filmem from the Rives de la Seine à Paris (1897)

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