History of color part 3

The Romantic Era

The 1830s is the romantic period. This age sees more variety in fabrics with many woven or printed fabrics featuring a dark or black background. The fabrics are ginghams, foulards, chintzes, as well as the Regencies silks and woolens. With the new dyes available, richer and more intense colors are used in female fashions-sage greens, plum, old rose, amber, tobacco browns, etc. although it is difficult to imagine, men’s fashions became even more conservative with the waistcoat well-made of a very fancy material is almost invariably black.

Early Victorian

The early 1840s is the beginning of the Victorian period. Women’s fabrics now include taffetas and shot and watered silks. Black lace is now in vogue and the colors have become softer and more subdued. The colors in men’s clothing remains unchanged with a cut of the clothing is more restrained.

Victorian fashion sees the emergence of lighter colors for spring and summer
wear, which gladdens the female heart; while her mate is now wearing the precursor of the modern suit. Yes it is now that the colors of the coat and trousers match! The flounced Victorian skirts make good use of the printed or embroidered fabrics. Lace is also more widely used as it can now be machine made.