Lovely Things

omgthatdress:

Carolyn Schnurer dress ca. 1950 via The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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omgthatdress:

Pierre Balmain dress ca. 1950-1955 via The Victoria & Albert Museum

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ornamentedbeing:

Dress (robe à l’anglaise)

c. 1785-France

Material: Pale blue striped silk; “compères” front; matching petticoat.

A dress of a blue and pale blue thin-striped pattern, along with a soft luster. In order to pull up the gown’s hem, a cord is attached to it, which makes it possible to wear as robe à la Polonaise, as well. In the latter half of the 18th century, clothing went toward simplification in particular women’s clothing advanced toward a functional direction without the formality. Even textiles for dress with a light texture entered the mainstream. Moreover, the preference to striped patterns that became the fashions that involve all the classes from this period also shows such a tendency.

KCI

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oldrags:

Dress, 1840’s

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ornamentedbeing:

c. 1852

The neckline was high except for evenings: as C. W. Cunnington remarks, ‘The high water mark of modesty would ebb after sunset some six inches!’ (A Handbook of English Costume in the 19th Century).

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