#organdy

[fashionsfromhistory]

Formal Dress worn by Gayle Roebuck to her sister Elaine’s Bat Mitzvah

Holt Renfrew

Spring 1957

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 2013.68.15)

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Afternoon or Tea/Garden Party Dress.

Designer/Maker: Norman Norell (1900-1972) 

Date: 1949

Medium: White organdy cotton

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[chicinsilk]

Christian Dior Haute Couture Collection Spring/Summer 1955.

Dorian Leigh wears “Musique de Fête” Marie-Antoinette blue organdy evening dress, decorated with pink flowers at the waist.

Christian Dior Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1955. Dorian Leigh porte "Musique de Fête" robe du soir en organdi bleu Marie-Antoinette, ornée de fleurs roses à la taille.

Photo Guy Arsac

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Pink Striped Organdy Dress, ca. 1850.

Augusta Auctions.

North America's #1 auction house for Couture & Vintage Fashion. Augusta Auctions accepts consignments of historic clothing and textiles from

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode: revue des modes, galerie de moeurs, album des salons, 1 juillet, 1836. Plate 522, 10 septembre 1836, no. 32. Paris. Robe de Mousseline brochie garnie d'un volant à tête; — Mantille de point; — Ceinture de velours; Robe en organdi trami; — Jupon de mousseline doublé de taffetas; — Ceinture et noeud de velours. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Brocaded muslin dress, trimmed with a ruffle, point mantilla, velvet belt. Dress in woven organdy, muslin petticoat lined with taffeta, belt and velvet bow.

[professorpski]

She was so orderly, so well balanced, one stitch of her hand-sewed organdy collar was so clearly identical with every other, her very seams, if you can understand it, ran so exactly where they should, that she set me to pulling myself straight.

This is the description of Miss Emily, a spinster, sole survivor of her family, who has insisted on renting her home out for the summer for far less than it is worth to the narrator. Miss Emily’s crisp, fine cotton collar on her dark dress was a common look for a basic dress in the early 20th century, and often came with matching cuffs. The hand stitching tells you she either has skill or once had money.

As the story progresses, mysterious things happen in the rented house at night. Does this house hold a secret about Miss Emily? This is from Mary Roberts Rinehart story titled The Confession. It was first published in 1917 as a serial in a magazine, and then republished with another story in 1921 in novel form. 

Rinehart uses fashion to signal who people are so far as age, taste, and class. Although in this case Miss Emily seems to be not quite as orderly as she appears.  

[jeanne-art]

Model wearing a organdy bonnet framed with flowers, and a billowing organdy, chintz-banded wedding dress Vogue, June 1, 1940

Photo © Horst P. Horst