#1890s evening

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Pale blue silk ball gown, 1898, French.

By Jean-Philippe Worth.

Met Museum.

[artschoolglasses]

House of Worth Evening Dress, French, 1898-1900

From the Met Museum

[fripperiesandfobs]

Ball gown by the House of Worth ca. 1896

From the Denver Art Museum

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Boots

1885-1890

Probably French

While the slipper and the strapped shoe were the most common choice for evening wear in the last third of the 19th century, boots did occasionally continue to appear. As with shoes, the basic evening boot was satin, either plain or featuring an embroidered vamp, usually in floral or foliate designs. Surviving examples of evening boots of the late 19th and early 20th centuries suggest, however, that those daring to wear something already outside of the ordinary often opted as well for unconventionally bold and unusual materials and trimmings. This pair of boots typifies that phenomenon: anachronistic side-lacing, novel and atypically exuberant fret and scroll motifs, and embroidery covering the entire boot, including the heel.

The MET (Accession Number: 2009.300.1477a–d)

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening Dress.

Designer/Maker: Parcher (Boston, Massachusetts, US); Worn by: Lucy Truman Aldrich (1869–1955)

Date: 1890's

Medium: Silk and lace

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 38, vol. 12, 19 septembre 1891, Paris. Toilette de Château en damas et point de Venise (Château ensemble in damask and Venetian stitch), de la Maison Jésurum. Dessin de Marie de Solar. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[jackmkelly]

jack kelly Has PTSD btw just so we r clear

[kriskukko]

lit up

[yeoldenews]

Who was part of the “love triangle” that you found in Rachel’s letters? Rachel herself? People you’ve mentioned before? It sounds intriguing!

The love triangle was between Will (Rachel's cousin who most of the letters are addressed to) and Rachel's roommate Peggy (one of "the two Margarets"), who was engaged to someone else at the time.

There's also a secondary love-ish triangle (one side thought it was a love triangle and the other two were entirely unaware of this) - also between Will and Peggy, the third side being a young man named, and I swear to you I'm not making this up, Budd Good Nice.

Budd Good Nice was a friend of, the also wonderfully named, Griffin Gribble.

[prince-steele]

ppl who act like the unifying factor for being lgbtqia+ is suffering are inherently backwards ab what it means to b queer in the first place. we didn't come into existence because we were oppressed, queer ppl have always existed. it's ridiculous to try n draw lines n borders around what identities r valid and which aren't just so u can justify bullying people u don't like

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1897 Evening dress by House of Worth (attr. to Charles Frederick Worth French or (and) Jean-Philippe Worth French)

silk, linen

(Brooklyn Museum / Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Brown evening dress, 1893, American.

Met Museum.

[artschoolglasses]

Evening Dress, made in Paris, 1894

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[fripperiesandfobs]

Evening dress by the House of Worth ca. 1895

From MFA Boston

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Dress

House of Drecoll

c.1890

The MET (Accession Number: C.I.50.105.19a, b)

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