Lovely Things

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Carolyn Schnurer dress ca. 1950 via The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pierre Balmain dress ca. 1950-1955 via The Victoria & Albert Museum

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Dress (robe à l’anglaise)

c. 1785-France

Material:  Pale blue striped silk; “compères” front; matching petticoat.

A dress of a blue and pale blue thin-striped pattern, along with a soft luster. In order to pull up the gown’s hem, a cord is attached to it, which makes it possible to wear as robe à la Polonaise, as well. In the latter half of the 18th century, clothing went toward simplification in particular women’s clothing advanced toward a functional direction without the formality. Even textiles for dress with a light texture entered the mainstream. Moreover, the preference to striped patterns that became the fashions that involve all the classes from this period also shows such a tendency.

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Dress, 1840’s

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c. 1852

The neckline was high except for evenings: as C. W. Cunnington remarks, ‘The high water mark of modesty would ebb after sunset some six inches!’ (A Handbook of English Costume in the 19th Century).

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Robe a la Francaise 1760-70

Metropolitan Museum

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1790s Dress, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Met Museum

"Palomita" Dior Dress 1953-1954

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Dress 1956/57

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Dona Marie-Louise Ferdinande de Bourbon, Infante d’Espagne, duchesse de Montpensier by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1847, Versailles

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Metropolitan Museum

1725-89 dress

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18th Century Dress ca. 1708

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Late 17th Century Dress

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l’Infante d’Espagne Marie-Thérèse-Raphaëlle by Louis-Michel Van Loo, ca 1740’s, Versailles

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1775-85

Met Museum

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ca. 1780

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Dress (Robe à l’Anglaise) 1776 British

Women with coquettish airs were imposing in robes à la française and robes à l'anglaise throughout the period between 1720 and 1780. The robe à l'anglaise developed with a fitted back after the style of dress worn in England. The silhouette, composed of a funnel-shaped bust feeding into wide rectangular skirts, was inspired by Spanish designs of the previous century and allowed for expansive amounts of textiles with delicate Rococo curvilinear decoration. The wide skirts, which were often open at the front to expose a highly decorated underskirt, were supported by panniers created from padding and hoops of different materials such as cane, baleen or metal. The robes à l'anglaise are renowned for the beauty of their textiles and the meticulous fit of their bodice back.