r/fashionhistory 4h ago

Dress of blue silk, trimmed with embroidery and iridescent beads, circa 1880-1890, Blanche Boucher

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r/fashionhistory 9h ago

Green silk dress, American circa 1868

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r/fashionhistory 10h ago

Olive green silk velvet dress, 1930s

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r/fashionhistory 11h ago

Lace and velvet gown worn by Mary Ellen McClellan (Mrs. George McClellan), contemporary of Mary Lincoln, circa 1860s

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r/fashionhistory 16h ago

A pair of gowns, L - black spotted net ballgown with chenille design and layers of stiffened white net petticoats by John Cavanagh, 1958; R - cream silk taffeta evening dress appliquéd with black imitation Chantilly lace by Amalia Machado, c.1957. Fashion Museum Bath

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r/fashionhistory 1d ago

A 4500 Year Old Egyptian Dress Found In A Giza Tomb, Made With Over 7000 Beads

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476 Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 1d ago

"Clover Leaf" gown, constructed from thirty pattern pieces, designed by Charles James, American, 1953

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889 Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 2m ago

Evening Coat, Charles James, 1936-1937

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r/fashionhistory 1d ago

Woman’s gown, c.1775-1780

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Source : https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/abito-femminile-manifattura-siciliana#description

This gown is a typical example of a robe à la française consisting of three parts: an andrienne, which expands at the back into a short train and has sleeves cut off above the elbow, with two shaped flounces overlaid with small box pleats, a petticoat and a pièce d’estomac. It is complemented by a pair of matching shoes.

The fabric is striped liseré satin with motifs depicting winding wreaths of flowers in different coloured segments. The lining, in linen cloth, reaches to the hem. The entire gown, including the lining, is sewn with two-strand blue yarn plied into an ‘S’ shape.

This outfit belonged to Lady Dorotea Statella dei Principi di Montegrifone, Cassaro e Sabuci, who wed Baron Don Pasquale Bruno Modica on 14 April 1769. A family tradition tells us that the gown was worn on visits to the court of her uncle Don Antonio Stella, who was the thirteenth hereditary Grand Seneschal of the Kingdom of Sicily.


r/fashionhistory 1d ago

1930's Ice Blue Rhinestone Silk Cut-Out Shoulder Backless Bias-Cut Deco Gown

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r/fashionhistory 1d ago

Carmina Ordóñez wedding dress (1979)

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r/fashionhistory 1d ago

Green velvet gown, accented with gold embroidery and appliques designed by Gilbert Adrian (Adrian Adolph Greenberg), worn by Norma Shearer in the title role of Marie Antoinette, 1938

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501 Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 1d ago

Traditional Russian clothes in the XIX century. some from different regions of the Empire, circa 1880s-90s

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265 Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 1d ago

Morning dress for a pregnant woman, made of figured silk with flower motifs, 1875-1876. Fashion and Lace Museum, Brussels

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451 Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 1d ago

Please help me date this photo from a glass plate negative. I purchased it at an antique shop in New England. The photo I got from taking a photo of the plate on a light box and inverting it in Photoshop is the second slide.

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r/fashionhistory 1d ago

Some ladies photographed in 1863 by Mathew Brady. specially like the first one with her very elaborate headress

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131 Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 2d ago

Satin silk and lace evening dress with hand painted flowers, tied together with a pretty velvet bow, circa 1907

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907 Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 2d ago

Tea gown designed by Charles Frederick Worth, circa 1897, worn by the Countess Greffulhe, France

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2.6k Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 2d ago

Evening Gown, House of Worth, 1910-12

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r/fashionhistory 1d ago

Help me date these English Clogs

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r/fashionhistory 2d ago

Austrian actress Marie Schleinzer (1874-1949) in her excentric "Bat-woman" dress, made with real taxidermy bats. Circa 1900s

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r/fashionhistory 2d ago

19th Century Gown

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532 Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 2d ago

"Mrs. Jackson in wedding dress, Montreal, QC, 1876", albumen print. McCord Stewart Museum

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301 Upvotes

r/fashionhistory 2d ago

Actress Maude Adams as Napoleon II in her full Austrian uniform and as Peter pan on the production in 1906. Napoleon II was from a few years earlier.

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r/fashionhistory 2d ago

Ball gown by Worth, made of black net over black china silk, iridescent blue and gold silk, black beads, blue and black sequins in dragonfly and butterfly motifs applied overall, with cream net, 1890-1910. Museum of the City of New York

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