Elgis Inspiration

But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1912 Evening dress by Jean-Phillipe Worth (Paris)

silk satin, silk voile, glass, metal, machine lace

(Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Evening Dress

Girolamo Giuseffi

c.1912

Indianapolis Museum of Art

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Evening dress, 1905, Austria.

[fashion-from-the-past]

Clothing & Textiles: Early 1900s Ivory Taffeta Gowns - New Canaan Museum and Historical Society

This ivory taffeta gown with black velvet embossed flowers was worn between 1900-1907 and is a striking example of ball gowns from the first

[onefootin1941]

Irish Crocheted Gown, c. 1908

[pogphotoarchives]

Women on horseback, on a wildflower covered hillside, New Mexico

Date: circa. 1900-1920

Negative Number: HP.1975.51.032

[indiascarlettofficial]

Evelyn Nesbit in 1901, probably posing for a fashion photo.

[history-of-fashion]

1918 Frank Bernard Dicksee - Mrs Austin Mackenzie

(Private collection via Sotheby’s)

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Afternoon Dress. Date: ca. 1900 Designer: Gustave Beer Place of origin: France Medium: Silk Chiffon, Velvet, Chantilly Lace, Metallic Thread.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Brooch

Edgar Bense for Boucheron

c.1890

Conceived as a dazzling dragonfly with delicate plique-à-jour wings, this brooch epitomizes the Art Nouveau style in both fashion and manufacture. With its translucent wings set en tremblant and its sparking rose-cut diamonds, the present jewel catches the light brilliantly. In the enameling technique called plique-à-jour, vitreous enamel is applied to openwork wire cells without a backing, creating the transparent effect of stained glass. The house of Boucheron was founded in 1858 by Frédéric Boucheron (1830–1902). First opened in the Galerie de Valois, under the arcades of the Palais Royal, the shop was perfectly situated in the center of Second Empire Parisian luxury. In 1893 Boucheron moved to the Place Vendôme—the first of the great French houses to occupy that location—where it remains headquartered to this day, with more than 30 branches across the globe.

The MET (Accession Number: Accession Number: 2018.447.1)

[theabominableseamstress]

Evening dress. c. 1900. Kyoto Costume Institute.

I am so absolutely in love with this dress, I don't even know where to start. The colour, the embroidery, the sleeves, everything

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1915 Evening dress

embroidered black crepe over mide blue satin

(National Museums Nothern Ireland)

[countess--olenska]

The "Arlesienne" evening dress by the House of Worth (ca. 1912-13)

Worn by Queen Maud of Norway

[history-of-fashion]

1904-1906 Black lace and white silk dress (attr. to Madame Rose H. Boyd, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

(Minnesota Historical Society Collections)

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening dress

c. 1905

Maison Stitch Filiale

Museum of Applied Arts

[history-of-fashion]

1894-1901 Portrait of four young women (photo by C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C.)

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

[frostedmagnolias]

embroidered and beaded gown

c. 1907

Gustave Beer

Whitaker Auction