#19th-century dress

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1893 Scrap album fancy dress by Madame Gough, London (court dressmaker), Sarah Ann Gough (designer)

silk, cotton, linen, paper, glue, metal (fastening), wood, leather, baleen, wax, paint

(National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

[frostedmagnolias]

Green Hostess Dress

c. 1889

Label: A. Félix Breveté / 15. Faub. St. Honoré Paris

Albany Institute of History & Art

[fripperiesandfobs]

Court train, First French Empire

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

[wh0-is-lily]

Undergarments of The Edwardian Era

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Celestial Blue Ball Gown.

Date: 1867

Maker: Marie and Josephine Virfolet (New York City)

Medium: Silk satin (tulle was replaced ca. 1980)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Day Dress

c.1855

England

This type of widely protruding skirt that appeared around the middle of the 19th century came to be known later under the name of the "crinoline style." As can be seen with this dress, large design motifs proved immensely effective on these voluminous skirts. The border pattern here is wood-block printed and repeats every 20.6 cm. Compared to small-scale designs, large patterns require a solid technique to avoid misalignment of the print colors. Considering that this mixed fabric of silk and wool is a material hard to print on, this dress with its bright and cheerful colors is a particularly fine example on how much cloth printing techniques had evolved.

The Kyoto Costume Institute

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Ramon Casas (1866-1932) "A Decadent Girl" (1899) Located in the Museum of Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain

[artschoolglasses]

Witch or Sorceress Fancy Dress Design, 1860s

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[nemfrog]

Laughing cats. Cats in gloves catch no mice. 1887.

Internet Archive

[zegalba]

Sigalit Landau created this art piece by submerging a traditional 19th-century black wedding dress into the Dead Sea which became gradually crystallized over the span of two months (2014).

[fashion-from-the-past]

[history-of-fashion]

1898-1900 Summer dress in striped cotton, with silk satin ribbon

(MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp)

[frostedmagnolias]

Dressing Gown

c. 1840

Litchfield Historical Society

[fripperiesandfobs]

Evening dress, 1860-65

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[die-rosastrasse]

Ball gown, 1840-41

Maker: Unknown

From the collection of Wien Museum

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Two-piece ball dress with overdress.

Date: 1895

Designer/Maker: Jean-Phillipe Worth