Two women model the latest fashions Finish:Stretched Broad Street Station

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Two children buying from a bow pot seller who carries pot plants in a basket on her head

'The Inauguration - The Great Exhibition

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At the time of the Roman invasion of Britain during the reign of Claudius

Two women model the latest fashions Finish:Stretched Broad Street StationTwo women model the latest fashions, 1863. In the 1860s the fashionable shape started to change. The fashion became a flatter front but with a larger skirt at the back. This meant that the crinoline was gradually replaced with the crinolette, a half crinoline which supported the enormous skirt at the back.