Grande Dame Style

via The Met

State Hermitage Museum

Ensemble, 1900 - 1901

Day Dress, c.1878

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@VandA

@VandA

Afternoon Dress, 1895

The John Bright Collection

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

(Mode Museum Antwerpen)

Trained silk and lace gown, Paris, 1908.

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.

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.

Medium:silk, rhinestones