COSTUME
Boxes 100-102
 (359 items)
Most of these pieces have cover lithographs depicting the costume
of the day from the 1830s to the 1880s. Although much of the music is serious
and instrumental, there is considerable humorous vocal music. Some of
the costumes are exaggerated in style. For example the Grecian Bend as
worn by women in the 1860s is a somewhat singular design, and this is
parodied in a song about a man clad in a similarly exaggerated costume
entitled "The Roman Fall". A number of covers portray the costume
introduced in the 1850s by Mrs. Amelia Bloomer and the Dolly Varden style
of dress of the 1870s. An amusing cover which shows bathing costumes
of the 1880s is entitled "Water Sprites".
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