Chemises of the 1830s-40s sit in an interesting place between the just-the-geometry standards of 18thc-Regency shifts and the ornate, complex chemises of the mid-Victorian. You can see the ideas about construction and embellishment forming. 🗃️🪡
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Probably just decorative! Tucks look nice and are pretty low effort, and because they're the bottom-most layer they don't need to be very exact about length.
And by "they" I mean chemises, lol. Women wanted chemises to be somewhere between the knee and mid-calf in length, but if the fabric in a tuck is significant to getting into that zone, the wearer is probably a child, not even a teenager.
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Thank you! 💖