#1840 fashion

[frostedmagnolias]

Dressing Gown

c. 1840

Litchfield Historical Society

[ghw-archive]

'The Letter', life study by Sir Edwin Landseer, made ca. 1830-40.

[die-rosastrasse]

Ball gown, 1840-41

Maker: Unknown

From the collection of Wien Museum

[feralarsonistschewingsand]

I'm not super well versed in 1830s and 40s fashion BUT the COSTUMES?????

Like a) Ellen rewears her dresses, he outfits are simpler than Anna's even when they are both wearing evening dresses, it such good visual story telling just by that.

B) we see 1 corset and it's a 30's corset, WITH FAN LACING which is super fun and there wasn't any weird anti-corset rhetoric thrown in for no reason

C) on the coat Thomas wears while traveling to orlocks castle, the collar is top stitched with a running stitch, by hand (in love with that detail)

D) HAIR WAS UP OMG PPL HAD THEIR HAIR UP

E) i love that the dresses weren't solidly high fashion 30s or high fashion 40s, there was a lot of overlap in the design. Like a 40s style dress but the sleeves were still 30s. Even the detail that the evening gowns were solidly 30s was nice, cuz Ellen would've had 1 nice dress and it would've been starting to go out of fashion

F)even the men's suits varied between 30s and 40s. I believe a few of the older men had more regency style coats, which was a very cool touch, still wearing the same jacket from 20 years ago

I just, the costumes were so good

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Ensemble.

Date: 1840–1880

Culture: Slovak

Medium: wool, cotton, silk

[thisflighttonight]

Spitalfields Silk Dress

1742-1743 altered in c.1840

Designer unknown

[fashionsfromhistory]

Pelisse

1835-1840

United States or England

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (Object Number: 1996-273

[artschoolglasses]

Mourning Dress, American, 1845

From the Met Museum

[chic-a-gigot]

19th century fashion plates, designs, etc.

(with late 18th and early 20th century plates)

Tagged by decade:

1790s | 1800s | 1810s | 1820s | 1830s | 1840s | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s

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[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Daguerreotype portrait of a seated woman and dog, 1845-47, USA.

[la-belle-histoire]

Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Kochubey-Baryatinskaya, Christina Robertson. 1840s.

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

c. 1846-1850

Glasgow Museums

[ghw-archive]

Waistcoat, 1845-59

[daguerreotyping]

Stereoscopic daguerreotype of two men playing chess in front of a mirror, c. 1840s

[pastlivesfinery]

La Mode, 1840 🩷

[dozydawn]