Defining Eras

Still being a high school student, I missed most major fashion eras by at least a  decade or more. I missed the 1920s age of the flappers, with drop waists and bob,

I missed the 1930s art deco look, which i recently read a post about on Liebemarlene.

I missed the 1940s time of "Rosie the Riveter" and painting on stocking lines on the back of your leg. And then there's the conservative 50s and the counterculture late 60s and the 70s and 80s...so many I've missed, but many I can recreate with a vintage piece or vintage inspired garment and not look like I just came through a time machine. But there is one decade that I truly admire, and cannot seem to find a way to work it into a normal outfit without turning the outfit into pure costume. That decade is the 1900s.

How can you possibly look anything but costume looking like this? Yet I crave for the looks of the 1900s. There's something majestic and delicate that since then, I believe, hasn't truly been rediscovered in the same way. How could you translate the 1900s look to today as easily as you could with something out of the 1960s or 1920s?