sleeves are cut long, showing very little shirt cuff. 1857 fashion plate shows formal evening wear, informal day wear, top coats, and a dressing gown. 1857 shows informal day wear. Sam Houston, 1858, wears the wide-brimmed hat common on the American frontier. Artist Eugène Delacroix wears a stiff tie over a tall standing collar. His double-breasted waistcoat is cut straight across. His frock coat, waistcoat and trousers are all of different fabrics. France, 1858. Liberian politician Edward James Roye wears a frock coat with a wide collar and lapels over a waistcoat with lapels and eight buttons. Artist Henri Fantin-Latour wears a shirt with a turnover collar and a black necktie. Caricature gallery Vicissitudes of the Cravat compares "The Fast Man's Neckerchief in 1809" and "The Fast Man's Neck-Tie in 1859". Children's fashion This young boy wears a belted tunic over pantalettes. His governess wears the modest, dark dress appropriate to her occupation. Hans Haubold, Graf von Einsiedel wears a three-piece suit with rounded collar and lapel peaks, and the round, frilled open collar favored for children, 1855. Young girl wears a knee-length skirt with crinoline petticoat, 1858–59. The young siblings of Empress Elisabeth of Austria wears knee-length and ankle length skirts and a tunic suit over pantalettes , the teenagers wear adult fashion, 1855. A girl in a dress and pantalettes, 1855 A girl in a dress, hat and pantalettes, ca 1855 Family portrait, 1858 See also Victorian fashion Corset controversy Crinoline Artistic Dress movement Victorian dress reform National Dress Reform Association Notes References Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. 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) Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; Tozer, Jane, and Sarah Levitt: Fabric of Society: A Century of People and Their Clothes 1770–1870, Laura Ashley Ltd., 1983; Eliza Ann McAuley describes wearing a Bloomer on the road to the goldfields, 1852 External links 1850s Fashion Plates of men, women and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries 1850s and 1860s Fashion Promenade dress, 1857 1850s Men's Fashions – c. 1850 Men's Fashion Photos with Annotations 1850s Fashions in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database 1850s fashion