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Sleeves are stuffed and boned, and various means are created to hold a good shape. Below the elbow, the sleeve remains fitted. The 3/4 length sleeve virtually disapears.  At right - 1893 Worth evening dress. At left - 1894 Day Dress Tailors begin to specialize in ladies clothing and a new style is created, the Tailor-Made. These suits were often plain, with jacket bodices. They were perfectly to suited to the new professional woman, or for handling business transactions in town.  
At left - 1894 tailor-made suit. By 1896, the skirts had reached their widest limit, as did the sleeves. Many skirts were wider at the hem than hoop skirts of old, up to 6 yards around. At right - 1896 evening dress. Often, fullness was added to the bodice at the bust. Tight lacing corsets were needed to achieve the fashionably small waist. In 1897, sleeves lost the fullness at the elbow, retaining a puff at theshoulder. In 1898, the shape of the skirt changed. the new disigns were closer fitted at the hips, flairing slightly at the knee to the hem.
By 1899, the sleeevs had slimmed considerably. The corset shape had changed to the "S" curve, giving beginings of the full breasted, pigeon look of the Edwardian period.
At right - 1898 day dress.
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In 1890, the bustle disapeared again, this time for good. The skirts became slim in front and still very full behind, but without poufs or lift. Sleeves began to expand slowly. Bodices became either short at the hip, or long as a jacket.
