History of Fashion

The first part in a 1957 BBC series on the history of fashion, chock full actual period garments.


fantastic commentary:
...something of the sort could have been prophesied from the time when it became clear that the demure, unabstrustive victorian woman was determined to take up as much room as possible....

 (I found it at Enchanted Serenity -- a fantastic historical costuming  resource.)