If you are now reaching the end of your quest for information - I hope - you might wish to refine your choices in light of where on the fashion spectrum your wife will be costumed.
The aesthetic movement moved away from the very ornamented and strait laced Victorian styles for women to more easily fitted and more flowing, a tad Grecian if I remember correctly.
It could be appropriate to leave off of all the trappings of Victorian kilted evening wear if escorting a young woman aesthete, but perhaps retaining some of the greater formality appropriate to a bygone age if that would be in tune with how your wife is intending to dress - though me being old enough for my mother to have put me in corsets I'd be encouraging the abandoning of all restraint and heading for the flapper styles of the roaring twenties even if slightly anachronistic.
Anne the Pleater
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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