During the Victorian era, the rise of the economy allowed to people to make more elaborated clothes. Cloth making was made easier and cheaper during the industrial boom of this time. Queen Victoria acsended the throne in 1837. She was very much interested in fashion and fashion press favoured the new young queen to endorse new fashion and she naturally became an icon for her age. Victoria believed in simplicity and demure elegance. Victorian fashion created by Queen Victoria in England clocked a time completely austere in dress, almost in funeral dresses because since the death of her husband she remained in mourning the rest of her life. She established very strict rules in mourning which can be clearly seen in movies and in texts. 

The women’s dress was very elaborated. Their dresses affected the way they walked, sat or moved her arms. Women wore a variety of colours for their stockings and dresses. Dresses, stockings and undergarments were cut in a style to show off the figure in a modest way. The undergarments had whale-bones or flexible steel to make it more confortable. 

The dress was worn in two pieces and connected with hooks and ties. The style of sleeves changed many times throughout the Victorian Era. The flamboyant fashion of mid 1830s with huge balloon-like sleeves, large bonnets and trailing ribbons were gone, to most people's relief I believe. Instead, low-waisted dresses with heavily-boned corsets took their place, creating drooping shoulders, long pointed angles and low pinched-in waist. The neckline was worn in a high V-neck. Either one or two skirts were worn; with two skirts the underskirt was longer, forming a short train with the top skirt forming an apron. The underskirt flared from the knees down to create fullness. Around 1880, the skirt was cut narrow all around the body, forming a slim outline. The dress was made in different colors, from pastels to darker colors. Different shades of green were very popular.