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Influence of aesthetic dress

The 1890s in both Europe and America saw growing acceptance of artistic or aesthetic dress as mainstream fashion, especially in the adoption of the uncorseted tea gown for at-home wear. In America in this period, Dress, the Jenness Miller Magazine (1887-1898) [1], reported that tea gowns were being worn outside the home for the first time in fashionable summer resorts.

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