One Dress a Day Challenge
Anything Goes December
The Firefly / Jeanette MacDonald as Nina Maria Azara
Set in Napoleonic-era Spain, this film starred Jeanette MacDonald as a glamorous singing spy. She made this film without her usual screen partner Nelson Eddy; instead, she's opposite Allan Jones, who is far less irritating when he isn't taking screentime away from the Marx Brothers.
For this movie, Jeanette got to wear a stunning succession of semi-historical gowns by Adrian. This one, for her first musical number, may just be the most spectacular of them all, or at least the shiniest! The outline is more late-18th century than her "offstage" costumes, which are in the high-waisted Regency or Empire style--see this gown from the month of monochrome for comparison.
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Ball gown, 1840-41
Maker: Unknown
From the collection of Wien Museum
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THE GILDED AGE (2022-) + ART [6/∞]
🌸 Bertha Russell in S1E2 | Mrs Hugh Hammersley (1892) - John Singer Sargent
🌸 Madame Paul Poirson (1885) - John Singer Sargent | Marian Brook in S1E9
🌸 Maud Beaton in S2E2 | Before the Ball (c. 1870s) - Alfred Stevens
Dress inspo found by: @tomcraweley + @whartonists
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Pop Culture Victorians:
Actual Victorians:
“If your eyes aren’t bleeding, it’s not historically accurate.”
- Abby Cox
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BTS the Afrovictorian ensemble: the day bodice
when last we left our intrepid heroine they were trying to figure out how they wanted to use the remaining fabrics to craft the jacket/daytime bodice.
Couple of strong options but I wasn't feeling either of them particularly. Time to go shopping.
Kidding, I enjoyed the trip. Here's the new candidates.
Okay, comparing the pieces of the new pattern to the completed dinner bodice seems like we don't strictly _need_ to do a mockup... Fuck it. We're cutting the final fabric.
Good start...
Sleeve fits...
Brave, if I do say so myself
Bonus: I needed a bigger bustle.
So that's another set of head to toe looks!
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Fancy dress inspired by Austrian folk costume
c. 1880
House of Worth, Coutau-Bégarie
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One Dress a Day Challenge
Anything Goes December
Immortal Beloved / Valeria Golino as Giulietta Guicciardi
The combination of bronze and deep turquoise in this gown is quite striking, especially when you add the shimmery wrap. I'm not an expert on the period, but I get the impression this sort of saturated color is more common in continental Europe than in Britain during this time period.
Costumes for this film were designed by Maurizio Millenotti.
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Oh, saints. This dress combines so many things I love in one place!
First of all, we’re in the late 1830s (by my guess), a time of dress transition. You can see the influence of the Romantic with those sleeves, but the hint of later Victorian gowns in the bodice shaping. The particular bodice here is fan-pleated, which is pretty self-explanatory if you look at the way the fabric is both pleated and fanned out. I do adore the result.
But, ahem, that damask? That color? Purple, always. Of course. For a 200 year old dress, the hue is still so striking. It is not Perkins Purple, however, as it’s two decades too early for that.
The weave? I damn near fell out of my chair looking at it. It’s one of those cases where I wish there were even higher resolutions so I could zoom in and see the stitches. Alas, we are not yet there in terms of technology, so I will instead cope with this.
And then it gets better. Because that silk damask? It’s almost 100 years older than the dress itself. UGH I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Could it have been Spitalfields? Maybe! It’s hard to say because we don’t have the provenance.
From the Maryland Center for History and Culture.
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The early 19th century sure was something for our boys (gn). They were taking things at a FAST pace. (If, of course, you’re immortal and need to layer everything under 6 layers of deniability).
Whatever you do, don’t think about how in 1793 Crowley rescued Aziraphale and then they got lunch, in 1800 he brought chocolates to the bookshop then saved Aziraphale from a heavenly promotion, then in 1827 they went on a date to a cemetery in Edinburgh(prime date spot at the time esp for non-trad couples) and Crowley seemed to be having the time of his life.
Then especially don’t think about Crowley getting lightning-sanded down to Hell and showing up 35 years later in a much grumpier mood and with a request for Holy Water as “insurance”.
And don’t think about the context of their last interaction being attempted suicide by poison drink after a partner was lost… no wonder Aziraphale didn’t take the request well and they fought. No wonder Crowley was offended by fraternizing - they’d been way beyond that. Nope, don’t think about any of that.
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