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One of the notable features of 1850s dresses is the wide sleeve treatment we see here on the mother's dress (figure 1). We see very wide sleeves that fall short of the wrist. And emerging from the sleeves are heavily blosed sleeves with tight wrist closures. This was just one way of doing the sleeves, but it seems very fashionable in the 1850s. One source suggests ghat this was a style popular in the early- and mid-1850s. Another that it was still popular at the end of the decade. We are still working on this. It is difficult to work out because so few Dags are dated. Ambros which only appeared about 1855 suggest that the style continued into the second half of the 1850s as well. We do not see this sleeve treatment to any extent in the 1860s, although our assessment has just begun. We note this sleeve traeatment also be used for boys' tunics.
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