#princess line dress

[resplendentoutfit]

figure 1

James Tissot (French, 1836–1902) • The Ball • 1878

Figure 1: According to French fashionistas, Tissot got the hat all wrong. Apparently hats were inappropriate as evening wear, particularly at a ball. Indeed, when perusing fashion plates of the late 1870s, formal evening attire never included hats.

For formal evening events, hair was styled in elaborate braids, buns, and curls, often adorned with silk flower sprays and fancy clips and combs. Silk flowers were also sometimes used as embellishments for dresses.

A Tissot creation likely inspired by the fashion plates of the day, the evening or ball dress in figure 1 features a bow right at the buttocks followed by a cascade of layered pleats, lace, and ruffles. This style was commonly referred to as The Princess Line dress. Created in Great Britain by Charles Frederick Worth in the form of Princess Alexandra's wedding dress, it soon took off as the latest dress style craze.

French hand fan • Ivory, paper, gouache, mother-of-pearl, metal • 1860-70 • Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure 2

Figure 1: In the mid 1870s, the bustle evolved into a less protruding fashion feature and eventually, toward the end of the decade gave way to the mid-bustle or natural form era. This transformation took place from 1877 through approximately 1882. Compared to the large, overstuffed bustles of the early 1870s, the Mid-Bustle, or Natural Form dress created a more vertical, slimming silhouette. The waist was undefined and embellishments began at the back of the waist, or even below it.

Figure 2: It is difficult for a fashion history novice like me to define the correct occasion for this particular dress. It's perhaps a special occasion day or afternoon dress and hence less embellished. Or perhaps the modest satin bow at the hip gives it away as just a regular day dress. In one entry at Lily Absinthe's blog, she states that a semi-train is usually indicative of a day or afternoon special occasion dress. All I know for sure is that I adore the lovely vertical pleated train!

Princess Line dress • 1878-1880 (made) • Unknown designer and maker, likely from Great Britain • Virginia and Albert Museum

Blue and gold Jacquard-woven silk made with a fitted bodice and narrow skirt drawn back into drapes at the back, and rusched silk trim. It has elbow-length sleeves and a square neckline, which are both trimmed with machine-lace. This is a day or afternoon dress, likely worn at home. More views of this dress can be seen here.

Attire appropriate for a hat.

Of course, the ultra-slim silhouette of the princess dress was restrictive and necessitated increasingly tighter undergarments like corsets and girdles, further restricting movement. Poor working women who engaged in hours of manual labor could not afford either the latest fashions nor the restricted movement.

Sources:

Lily Absinthe

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute , New York City

Fashion History Timeline (FIT, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City

V & A (Victoria & Albert Museum, London

[raggydollsscreenshots]

Posting screenshots from The Raggy Dolls every day until ITV puts it on ITVX: Day 76:

[sleepytoycollection]

I need to work on the neck a bit more, but I cut off the mask's neck piece, stuck another doll head into the mask to be the back of her head (and so I can connect her to the new body), and tried my best to do something with her hair.

I would say I'm more surprised they didn't make more Fiona dolls, considering how popular Shrek was in the 00's, but toy companies seem to think girls hate green and a plus sized doll was a hard sell in the era of "be as as skinny as possible" so.

And nowadays Shrek is considered a meme franchise so I doubt we'll get another official one anytime soon. A shame because this is a genuinely lovely sculpt and face up, and I adore it so much.

[celestialrealms]

I've been thinking about this Asmo chat so much

Anyway, Asmo dressing Diavolo up in pretty dresses and telling him how pretty he is ^_^

[midnightbrightside]

It is my firm belief that the Kristoph wears shirts that are too big him to hide his snatched waist.

I totally believe like John Melaney, he’s got them feminine hips, so wears clothes that don’t fit so he can be “taken seriously”

He makes himself look ugly cause he’s too afraid and insecure to be the pretty little bitch he is

kristoph gavin is the first man to experience misogyny in the workplace so true

[bbyboybucket]

I think this is the first time in years that I’ve decided on a basic Halloween costume. Like usually I am so original but I couldn’t find anything for the very few creative ideas I had 😔

[ponysongbracket]

This Day Aria Line Tournament

[ghostpainters]

Beauty and the Beast 

Final piece vs. line art. 

Belle is my mom’s favorite Disney Princess, so I wanted to draw her before Mother’s Day. 

[herrmit]

not to start shit but. tell me you didn't understand princess jellyfish without telling me you didn't understand princess jellyfish

[lesbianspeedy]

i miss dinah's outfits she had so many cute little ensembles in the 70s and i presume the 80s. let dinah be fun again 2k23

i AGREE, she can rock a leather jacket with the best of them but i miss all her button ups and blouses

pink was kinda her colour huh

[thepandalion]

holy mother of FUCK

[maddsmallow]

alright take 2 on trying to post this lmao

everyone’s favorite gugelhupf baking girl gabrielle!!! this time with 72% more historical clothing accuracy 😎 👍 i headcanon her as being pretty tall, maybe 5′8″ or 5′10″? and kind of broad in the shoulders, and being kinda clumsy about it, like she always forget how much space she actually takes up haha

consider supporting me on ko fi at /maddsmallow if you like my shit !

[fierykitten2]

Just realised the personalities I assigned the Neo Swords match them up very well with the Mario Princesses their energy panels match (Leaves and Peach, Boulder and Daisy, Crown and Rosalina). Also I tend to order them the same way (given I consider Leaves to be the leader of the Neo Swords and Peach is much more important than the other two put together I put the pink ones in the middle rather than at one end)

Edit: as an extra bonus, Rosalina and Crown are considerably taller than the rest of their trios. I’m not sure about how Peach and Daisy scale but I’m 99.9% certain Daisy is shorter. While officially Leaves is the same height as Boulder Terrakion is shorter than Virizion and I think we are supposed to see Boulder as being slightly shorter than Leaves (just the difference is so small they’re both listed as 1.5m)

[mididressobsessed]

Source: instagram.com/missgemski

[shidoukanae]

WIP kind of sort of but fairy!symbolism Helene is a neat idea to me so i attempted to draw that idea bit (but messy!!)

[brittlebutch]

who wants to come frolic with me in this beautiful field (tgirl!evan headcanons)