The Aesthetic Movement took place from around 1870 to 1880. It was led mostly by artists, poets, writers, and actors who called themselves the Aesthetes.
Aesthetes opposed machine made products and felt as though the Industrial Revolution was the beginning to the end of human hands in the workplace. Because of this opposition, they would dress in loose fitted clothing dyed naturally, sometimes with vegetable juices, and wore earth toned and floral patterns made with real flowers sewn to the fabric.
Does the term "flower power" come to mind? :)
The women also started wearing loose corsets, if wearing one at all, to show their disapproval of adornment and the "allusion" that constricting corsets made a lady respectable. Aesthetes favored the natural body shape and embraced the concept of "less is more".
The fashion was also influenced by the Medieval Time's use of wide, billowed sleeves and the loose fitted attire.
Aesthetes defied society from their dress to their red hair and even to their diet. Most Aesthetes were vegetarians and felt that there was no logic in killing animals. They opposed wearing birds or feathers on their garments and opted for flowers instead.
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