#19th century style

[pastlivesfinery]

Fashion Plate, 1877 🎀

[sapphicherri]

excessive reading has destroyed my perception of romance cuz wtf is “i really like you” after i’ve just read “I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.”

[jewellery-box]

Gold-embroidered silk velvet and satin court ensemble

Russian, late 19th century

The sartorial hierarchy for ladies at the Russian court reached especially strict and stringent heights in the last decades of the nineteenth century, when color and length of train were dictated by rank and proximity to the Empress(es). One of the finest court dresses to have come on the market, this rare, complete imperial court ensemble of blue silk velvet must have, in accordance with its hue, been worn by a Grand Duchess. The ensemble is elaborately embroidered in gold metallic thread, consisting of a boned bodice with pointed waist and long, open hanging sleeves; blue velvet skirt continuing into a nine-foot train; and a plastron and underskirt of white silk satin embroidered in gold metallic thread.

A related court dress worn by the Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna is in the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve.              

Cora Ginsburg                

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

May: Purple Redux

The Gilded Age (s1e9, "Let the Tournament Begin") / Taissa Farmiga as Gladys Russell

From the same scene as Agnes' deep purple evening gown, here's Gladys in a charming lavender dress that looks straight out of an impressionist painting. As is appropriate for a young girl, this dress is much lighter, less ornate, and altogether fluffier. The bodice and overskirt have subtle embroidered designs in silver.

I really like her hair ornament! It looks like it may have amethysts in the center of the floral shapes, to match the gown.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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[frostedmagnolias]

Two-piece silk evening gown

c. 1865-1869

pink and white silk brocade evening gown made in Paris, France in the 1860s

Minnesota Historical Society

[thatshowthingstarted]

Horse Handle Lapis Lazuli Dagger khanjar,

Persian, 19th Century CE.

The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait

[burningvelvet]

Gentlemen’s Regency Era Portraits

[lameslutz]

WOMEN AND FLOWERS 1868.

LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

[artschoolglasses]

Cotton dress, 1812-18

From the London Museum

[pastlivesfinery]

Revue de la Mode, 1873

[livesunique]

Hôtel Potocki, 75008 Paris

[rovinglemon]

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

April: Yellow Redux

The Young Victoria / Emily Blunt as Queen Victoria

Victoria wears this very springy and girlish-looking yellow gown, a fine example of 1830s fashion, to the king's birthday party. The sheer outer layer is embroidered with white roses. As can be seen from the sketch above, the final product very closely followed Sandy Powell's design.

As beautiful as the gown is, that amazing hairstyle almost succeeds in distracting from it. It's impressive that they managed to recreate one of the more difficult and complex hairstyles from the 19th century.

[fayriequeene]

Last weekend I went to Wightwick manor to see some of the pre raphaelite art, and I sort of dressed up on theme 🌿

[empirearchives]

Empire style dress

1805-1810, French, Napoleonic era

(The Met)