The Letter (A Classical Maiden), 1899
John William Godward
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Alfonso Balzico: Cleopatra (1874)
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Ceremonial dress of Electoress Magdalena Sibylla of Saxony. circa 1615.
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submitted by anon 🩶🩵
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• Dress.
Designer/Maker: H. Leitner
Date: ca. 1886
Medium: Machine-woven wool fabric with velvet and lace decoration, steel buckle, machine and hand stitching.
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Dress, c. 1820, England
Silk, tulle, silk satin
Blue striped silk ball dress with boat neckline, short wide gathered sleeves trimmed with ivory pleated tulle ribbon. Gown with blue silk satin waistband (with embroidered ivory spikelets) with a brass buckle (covered with floral enamel), maxi length skirt (knife pleated on the top at the front and tightly gathered in back).
Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation
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Two Piece Ball Gown, ca. 1895
Jeanne Paquin
via Europeana Fashion
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Have yourself some frocking fabulous Lanvin! Fashion history of 1937, via the Met.
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Ball Gown
Driscoll (United States)
c.1900
Gift of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1976
The MET (Accession Number: 1976.134.14a, b)
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Evening dress, 1880s
Fashion Museum Bath
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Ball Gown
Emile Pingat (Paris, France)
c.1864
The MET (Accession Number:C.I.69.33.12a–c)
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