Grande Dame Style

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Brown wool overcoat with detachable cape, 1888, French.

Worn by Fannie Tuttle.

Chicago Historical Society.

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[ephemeral-elegance]

Summer Day Dress, 1880

Worn by Madame Bartholomé in the painting In the Conservatory, by Albert Bartholomé (ca. 1881)

via The Met

[fashionsfromhistory]

Ball Gown of Elisabeth Feodorovna

1897-1898

State Hermitage Museum

[costumeloverz71]

Ensemble, 1900 - 1901

[costumeloverz71]

Day Dress, c.1878

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Evening Dress, 1913

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Wedding Dress, 1902

@VandA

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Evening Dress & Matching Spencer, c.1820

@VandA

[costumeloverz71]

Afternoon Dress, 1895

[frostedmagnolias]

Wool Gown

c. 1887-8

The John Bright Collection

[resplendentoutfit]

The Painting: John Singer Sargent • Portrait of Millicent Duchess of Sutherland • 1905 • Museo Thyssen

The dress : Evening gown of silk and metal. c. 1898-1900. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[history-of-fashion]

1909 Silk walking suit by Joseph Fische, Vienna

(Mode Museum Antwerpen)

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Green taffeta dress, ca. 1890.

Worthing Museum.

Costume The Costume collection at Worthing is exceptional and ranks amongst the leading resources for dress history in the UK. Cotton boned

[detournementsmineurs]

Trained silk and lace gown, Paris, 1908.

[historicaldress]

LAFERRIERE EXQUISITE BALL GOWN, PARIS, c. 1890

1 piece w/ princess seams, elongated pale blue satin bodice & puff sleeves, trimmed w/ embroidered vines, roses & blue glass stones, lace neck flounce & deep cuffs, skirt front & sides of peach brocade in stylized iris motif, trained back skirt in ice blue satin.

[historicaldress]

TRAINED SILK and LACE HIGH NECK GOWN, c. 1900. 

2-piece cream tissue silk and Maltese lace, the tucked bodice having short sleeve with upper puff and ruffled yoke, lavishly decorated with lace, skirt having pleats stitched down to the knee between three vertical lace bands, skirt back with lace swags, attached sash with back bow and streamers, taffeta lining.

[historicaldress]

Evening dress

Designer:Georges Doeuillet (French, 1865–1929)

Date:1910–13

Culture:French

Medium:silk, rhinestones