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lookingbackatfashionhistory · 2 days

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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.

#fashion history #history of fashion #dress #fashion #19th century fashion #19th century dress #19th century #H. Leitner #ca. 1886

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paintingispoetry · 3 days

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Joseph Karl Stieler, "Portrait of Crescentia Bourgin" detail, 1833

#19th century art #joseph karl stieler #stieler #painting #art #art details #history of fashion #painting details

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frostedmagnolias · 3 days

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Afternoon Dress

c. 1905-1910

Silk damask trimmed throughout with embroidered braiding, lace, net on cotton lining, and boned

Victoria and Albert Museum

#edwardian gown #edwardian era #edwardian dress #Edwardian #1900s #1910s #1910s fashion #dress history #historical fashion #fashion history #20th century fashion #history of fashion #vintage fashion #vintage dress #vintage #frostedmagnolias

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empirearchives · 8 months

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Black empire style gown

Tulle and silk

C. 1800-1810, Napoleonic era

Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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witheredroseblossom · 2 months

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Lillian Cook in “The Bluebird”, 1918

#1910s fashion #fashion history #history of fashion #1910s #early 1900s #early 20th century #circa 1910 #1910s style #edwardian #edwardian era #edwardian fashion #silent film #silent movies

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tomcraweley · 6 months

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Find something new from Season 1-2 of 'The Gilded Age'~

#costume design #costumes #costume designer #history of fashion #costume drama #the gilded age #bustle #1880s #1870s #1880s fashion #1870s fashion #hbo #reference #james tissot #charles james #19th century

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threadtalk · 1 year

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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.

#silk dress #1830s #fashion history #textiles #costume history #historical costuming #history of fashion #costume #threadtalk #19th century fashion #historical fashion #spitalfields silk #damask

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 23 days

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Wool wedding dress, c.1895

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design-is-fine · 7 months

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Giacomo Balla, The Anti-Neutral Suit: Futurist Manifesto, 1914. Expansion of spring, painting, 1918. Italy. Source

“We must invent futurist clothes, hap-hap-hap-hap-happy clothes, daring clothes with brilliant colors and dynamic lines. They must be simple, and above all, they must be made to last for a short time only in order to encourage industrial activity and to provide constant and novel enjoyment for our bodies.” – Giacomo Balla,

#vintage fashion #history of fashion #italian design #fashion design #1910s #futurism #futurismus

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daguerreotyping · 9 months

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Tintype of a pair of affectionate young men, one draping his arm over his companion's shoulder and his leg over his companion's leg—while said companion, in turn, rests a hand on his thigh, c. 1860s

#why cross your legs the normal modern way when you can cross each other's legs the ambiguously intimate 19thc way #19th century #1800s #1860s #1860s fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #history of fashion #men's fashion #menswear #19th century photography #tintype #ferrotype #gay interest #19th century men #vintage men

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cinematic-phosphenes · 2 months

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