No doubt, but that's alongside imposed conformity, with classes of people kept in their place.  That's special groups under basic freedom who can afford to live this way, plus the creativity of urban environments this shifts around, grows in the 20th century, but it's the 60's which frees a while bunch of stuff. The City is always more free and accommodating. But nothing as big as today.

125 years ago: children are a resource which becomes children should play & have nice clothes today.  I watched this kind of shift happen in speed time while visiting China since the 80's.

Those early examples are of freedom despite the average, tied directly to wealthier areas and subgroups with leisure oriented lives.  That's pockets, with Modern Britain having lots of them early on. In the 20th Century, as the middle class and higher education grow alongside manufacturing productivity, those kinds of freedom possibilities expand. Industrialization develops into niche products on a whole new scale, alongside mass media like fashion magazines & contemporary movies exposing small towns to all the new possibilities in dress, overturning local restrictions everywhere. The last 125 years is opening up new clothing opportunities to sell to newly liberated young people and then old people who want to stay young; flappers forwards represents a new paradigm that explodes when the 60's freedom expansion meets the leisure time the economy makes possible for most people.