The clothing on display on the passengers on board Titanic depends on the huge divisions in class which existed in 1912. In the evenings, first class passengers would be dressed in their best for dinner.
Men wore tuxedo style suits with white bow ties with top hats and highly polished shoes. Ladies would use the formal dinners to show off their best dresses. One first class passenger is reported to have taken seventy dresses with her for a week long voyage.
The fashion of the day was for deeply coloured fabrics such as silk. Sleeves were puffed and edged with lace at the cuffs. Lace inlays were also popular. Down in third class, men wore britches and shirts and women wore long skirts, boots and high collared blouses. In the middle, second class passengers would have had a few different outfits to choose from but could only dream of the wardrobes available to first class passengers.
What was the clothing like on Titanic?
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The Titanic's passenger roster was so fashionable that it actually included a noted dress designer of the time, Lady Duff Gordon, who was best known for designing unique "personality" dresses for clients that were finished with sprays of her signature handmade flowers. It also included a fashion critic—Edith Russell, a correspondent for the publication Women's Wear, who felt compelled to travel on the Titanic even after she was spooked by a squall at Cherbourg, because her ample luggage already had been loaded onto the ship.
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What is wrong with Gav? This is the Titanic clothes and fashion article, its not a place to be discourteous or impolite.
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Gav always goes saaaaaaaaaaaaan, like some kind of message
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No point trying to hide it, it's clear.
My world crumbles when Gav is not near
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Among the aspects of the story most laden with pathos is the contemporary depiction of bodies frozen into life jackets and hauled from the North Atlantic and sorted by class, largely according to what else they had on.
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It's not about food or olives or drinks, this is only about clothes and accessories here.
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Gav drawing up the People's Charter
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