Dressing in the 1870s – a video from The Bowes Museum
Mrs Henry Nye Chart (d.1892), theatre manager, by Louis Bertin (b.c.1828), woodburytype, 1870s. © National Portrait Gallery, London
The Bowes Museum and historical costume specialist Luca Costigliolo dress a female model in an exact replica 1870s dress, made by his students at the National School of Cinema in Rome.
