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Sources:
- This Fashion Plate from 1894 housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
I wish I knew where this fashion plate came from, but the Met was not helpful in telling me, because I suspect they don’t know. People have been cutting fashion plates from fashion magazines pretty much since they got invented. So, assuming the person who wrote the date on the plate was correct (and I have no reason to think they were not) this is a suit from 1894.
Even if the plate didn’t say 1894, the sleeves are very much the middle of the 1890s- big and commanding. I mean, who doesn’t want a sleeve that is about the size of their head?