Fashion Night Out: Girls' Style from the Civil War to 1900

The definite side show while attending your annual Christmas Nutcracker performance is surely all the little girls in velvet, taffeta and lace. Their special attire indicates they are ready for the magical experience. The Nutcracker fashion parade has endured since Tchaikovsky wrote it in 1892! Throughout fashion history parents have always enjoyed dressing up their little girls, usually in the prevailing style of their mothers. Join Costume Historian Lois Valeo at another Fashion Night Out on May 11. Little Girls' style from the Civil War to 1900 is included in the illustrated talk. Take a peek at the Museum’s impressive collection of Little Girls' dresses. Enjoy a nostalgic look back at fads and trends that ebbed and flowed with the changing social times. And visit with the long-ago bow-clad fashionable little ladies whose cuteness delighted us at every twirl.