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In the history of fashion, the conflict between Francophones and Anglophones is inevitable, but today the reign of the English Queen Victoria (1837-1901) is the most common designation for the 60-year period of the 19th century. This does not contradict the fact that in the 19th century, fashion acquired an international character, since, despite the fact that women's fashion was created in Paris, it spread freely throughout the world, and there were no significant differences between European and American fashion in the 19th century. The emergence of a single fashion was shaped, along with the spread of fashion illustrations, by the appearance of the Singer sewing machine, the transition to industrial clothing production and the creation of international department store chains. The term "Victorian era" has become specific, and denotes, in addition to romanticism, conservatism and the reign of false morality, as well as the oppressed social position of women in the 19th century. The dark side of the romantic fashion of the 19th century was the mass fashion for corsets and uncomfortable metal frames that supported crinoline skirts. The 19th century witnessed the first rapid change of fashion in history, which occurred mainly due to changes in the shape of the corset and the frame of the skirt. Melancholy became the prevailing shade of feeling, the poet Charles Baudelaire used the word "spleen" to describe continuous melancholy.