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fashion-from-the-past · 7 months

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Elisabeth de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse Greffulhe (1860–1952) made this dress famous by posing in it for the photographer Nadar in 1896. The museum also possesses the photographs made at the time, in which the elegant countess opted for being photographed in back view so as to highlight the slimness of her waist: this close-fitting 'princess line' dress – there were no seams at waist level – and the sinuous lines of the lily plants accentuate the impression of tallness and slenderness.

One of the leading figures on the Paris social scene – not only for her rank and sovereign elegance, but also for her culture and intelligence – Comtesse Greffulhe was a significant source of inspiration for Marcel Proust, who used her as the model for the Duchesse de Guermantes in Remembrance of Things Past. She was also the cousin of Robert de Montesquiou, who drew on her for some of his poems, including a sonnet whose closing line Beau lis qui regardez avec vos pistils noirs ('Beautiful lilies gazing with your black pistils') doubtless refers to this dress. The bertha collar, whose original form was altered, certainly during its owner's lifetime, could be turned up to form bat's wings; a bat being Montesquiou's emblematic animal, making this a true dress-poem.

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frostedmagnolias · 4 months

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Dress

c. 1889-1892

maker: Sara Mayer & A. Morhanger

V&A Museum

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antiquebee · 4 months

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digitalfashionmuseum · 7 months

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Cream Cotton Dress, 1804-1815, Austrian.

Met Museum.

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historical-fashion-polls · 24 days

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#historical fashion polls #fashion poll #historical dress #historical fashion #dress history #fashion history #fashion plate #19th century #19th century fashion #19th century dress #early 19th century #1800s dress #early 1800s #1800s fashion #1800s #1808

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historical-beauty-lily · 11 months

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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icyfetish · 4 months

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Helena Bonham Carter by John Swannell, 1992

#helena bonham carter #90s #magazine #photoshoot #fashion #girlblogging #90s fashion #1990s #1998 #90s nostalgia #1992 #vintage #19th century #1800s dress #victorian era

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empirearchives · 5 months

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Empire style dress, known as a golden rain gown

1807-1810, Napoleonic era

Centraal Museum

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giulyaroque · 3 months

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Monica Vitti as Éléonore and Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant as Eric in Château en Suède (1963)

#movies #french movie #monica vitti #60s movies #60s icons #chateau en suède #italian actress #60s aesthetic #Château en Suède 1963 #1800s dress #1800s fashion #gifset

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poeticxwhore · 1 year

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with all the pitter patter going on about Bridgerton again, i think we are forgetting the ORIGINAL GIRLBOSS and perhaps one of the MOST UNDERRATED character: LADY PORTIA FEATHERINGTON!