The History of the Waistcoat Part 2

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Interestingly, it was thought for some time that the name “waistcoat” was derived from waste. The fact that garment was originally made from excess material that would otherwise have gone to ‘waste’. This, however, was nonsense.

Originally, during the 17th and 18th centuries, the fashion in waistcoat was for highly ornate items in bright colours, but this gradually gave way to a much more informal and even puritanical style in the late 1700s and into the 19th century. Partly this was due to the international influence of the distinctly anti-aristocratic French Revolution in 1789.

From 1810, waistcoats became shorter still and a much tighter fit, eventually almost doubling as an undergarment. Increasingly waistcoats were being used cosmetically to streamline the fuller figure. When the corset became popular in the 1820s, waistcoats served to emphasize the fashion for the pinched waist. They often featured whalebone stiffeners of their own, as well as laces at the back and reinforced buttons at the front.

 

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