Gilded Age Fashion. This exhibition brings together highlights from the costume collection at The Frick Pittsburgh. By The Frick Pittsburgh.
In terms of fashion, Gilded Age style was defined by extravagance. The era's “unofficial edict,” according to Vogue's Elise Taylor.
The Gilded Age was a period of flashy materialism and overt political corruption in the United States during the 1870s.
"gilded glamour" refers to the Golden Age in America, a period of rapid industrialization and massive economic growth in the three decades before the turn of the century.
Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.
Helen Uffner has dressed Broadway, Hollywood and TV shows for more than 40 years.