1860s fashion

thumb|Bavarian Officer Pickelhaube thumb|right|Prussian police leather Pickelhaube

lightweight cloth-covered helmet

high-crowned, wide-brimmed hat

thumb|250px|Bustle, lady's undergarment, England, c. 1885. Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.2007.211.399 A bustle is a padded undergarment or wire frame used to add fullness, or support the drapery, at the back of women's dresses in the mid-to-late 19th century. Bustles are worn under the skirt in the back, just below the waist, to keep the skirt from dragging. Heavy fabric tended to pull the back of a skirt down and flatten it. As a result a woman's petticoated skirt would lose its shape during everyday wear (from merely sitting down or moving about).

style of hat

coarse, decorative hairnet, sometimes attached to a hat, worn over a chignon or rolled hair

broad-brimmed felt or straw hat, with a high crown, pinched symmetrically at the four corners