[GretchenM]

It takes an odd sense of style to emphasize cuffs as the most important item on formal wear.

[AnAmericanMother]

That was relatively restrained for the time.

Years ago (over 100) one Eminent Victorian, Mr. Thackeray, wrote a bit of dialogue purporting to be two little Victorian children asking their grandparents about their salad days at the height of the Regency. "Did you box the Watch, Grandpapa? And how tight your trousers were! And how very low your dresses were, Grandmama!"

Our day will come too.