at coming-out (in their later teens, usually 16-18). Older girls wore hoops to hold out their skirts. Young girls wore washable pinafores over their dresses for work and play to keep them clean, as typified by the eponymous heroine of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, and her Alice in Wonderland dress. Boys wore simple jackets and trousers. See also Victorian fashion Artistic Dress movement Crinoline Corset controversy Notes References Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860–1940, Wace 1966, Macmillan 1972. Revised metric edition, Drama Books 1977. Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. Cashin, Joan E. "Torn Bonnets and Stolen Silks: Fashion, Gender, Race, and Danger in the Wartime South." Civil War History 61#4 (2015): 338-361. online On the Confederate States of America Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837–1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, (full text available online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collections) Johnston, Lucy: From the Crinoline, to the Crinolette, to the Bustle: 1860–1880, V&A Museum, Collections, Corsets and Crinoline. Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS Steele, Valerie: Paris Fashion: A Cultural History, Oxford University Press, 1988; Takeda, Sharon Sadako, and Kaye Durland Spilker, Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700 - 1915, Prestel USA (2010), Tortora, Phyllis G. and Keith Eubank. Survey of Historic Costume. 2nd Edition, 1994. Fairchild Publications. Tozer, Jane, and Sarah Levitt: Fabric of Society: A Century of People and Their Clothes 1770–1870, Laura Ashley Ltd., 1983; External links 1860s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries 1850s and 1860s Fashion 1860s Men's Fashions — c. 1860 Men's Fashion Photos with Annotations Fashonik Updos for long hair 1864 Wedding Dress — Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute 1860s Fashions in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database 1860s fashion History of clothing (Western fashion) 1860s decade overviews