<p>A satirical cartoon from the July 11th 1857 issue of <i>Harper's Weekly</i> (New York), on the difference between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1795-1820_in_fashion" class="extiw" title="en:1795-1820 in fashion">Regency clothing styles of the early 1800's</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1850s_in_fashion" class="extiw" title="en:1850s in fashion">Victorian fashions of the time</a>:
</p><p>Two girls or young women of 1857 (wearing full crinolines) are viewing a painting of a woman in early nineteenth-century neo-Grecian attire.
</p><p>Caption:
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<dl><dd>ARABELLA MARIA: "Only to think, Julia dear, that our Mothers wore such ridiculous fashions as these!"</dd>
<dd>BOTH: "Ha! ha! ha! ha!"</dd></dl>
(Actually, it would more probably have been their grandmothers...)
unknown 1857 artist
1857-07-11
Ultimately from <i>Harper's Weekly</i>; scanned by H. Churchyard from <i>The Wonderful World of Ladies' Fashion: 1850-1920</i>, edited by Joseph J. Schroeder, Jr.