As Bill Cunningham points out in the New York Times, the Victorian look is back ... or at least it is among a certain set in New York, judging from what the Who's Who was wearing to outdoor parties in the Hamptons and at Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Calling these dresses with trains a throwback to "the Victorian gaslight era," Cunningham makes one wonder what will be the next fad from Victorian England.
Possibilites include:

• Lord Tennyson's epic-length lyric poem In Memoriam
• child labor
• the Boer War
• the last gasp of landed aristocracy

As they said in Victorian times, the sun never sets upon England. Will the sun ever set upon Victorian fashion?