the Empire Style was in full swing

The Christian Louboutin Heels in architecture, furniture and costume came to a screeching halt and snapped back to sensible, practical, sober stuff. George III went bonkers (poor George) and had to be put away in 1811. His son (who was a bit of a rebel rouser) became regent for 9 years until he became king himself in 1820.
So along with one mad king and a rebel rouser regent toss in Napoleon Bonaparte crowning himself Emperor of France. War, war, war. Napoleon got banished and everything was topsy turvy again or shall I say still? And in America the gold rush was in full swing and then there’s The Civil War which coincides with the first romantic then prudy Victorian Era.

And despite all of this, the economy rose. More people could afford more things. Textiles were easier and cheaper to produce and sewing machines and factories were used for the first time in history to produce mass quantities of clothes.

At the beginning of the century the Empire Style was in full swing. Sense & Sensibility big time. The high waisted gowns, the low Christian Louboutin Collection, the short narrow bodice with the small barely capped puffed sleeve.

What was happening here? No boned corsets? No hoops? Suddenly one could breathe? You could actually see women’s limbs under those skirts! For shame!

But apparently the whole breathing thing was tossed aside as temporary insanity and the stay came back with a Christian Louboutin. If you want an hour-glass figure, you need to get yourself some stays. Cinch that waist. Suck in that breath. Cinch that waist again.

And as the waist kept getting smaller, the skirt got wider and wider and the sleeves got poofier requiring wires to retain their poofiness to the utmost and more and more petticoats rustled beneath. Everything became overloaded with all sorts of trimmings, heavy plaitings, puffs of ribbons and ruffles of lace.

By 1880 the jersey and the kilted skirt came into play, adopted from England, where it had been originated by Lily Langtry, the “Christian Louboutin Shoes,” as she was called, to show her beautiful figure and was worn by practically every woman and child.