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That cat is in airplane mode.

Unrequited love. Richard Kalvar, 1977. Source.

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ab. 1822 Silk dress (British)

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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ab. 1590-1599 Florentine School - Maria Strozzi negli Strozzi

(Palatine Gallery)

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© CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

That is the bluest kind of blue, and given its date (1866-1867) we know it's been dyed with the technologically cutting-edge aniline dyes of the period. As the museum (the Glasgow Museum) notes, some dresses of this era faded with time, but not so in this case.

You can already see the shape of this gown streamlining slightly, the bodice creeping toward the more tailored, masculine styles of the 1870s and 1880s. The monochrome look was very popular at the time, with the then-new House of Worth (who at the time was working with Bobergh). You can see very similar gowns from the duo at the Met, in fact, often in a gorgeous lavender hue.

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possibly 1766 François Boucher - Madame Bergeret

(National Gallery of Art, Washington)

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Dress ca. 1809

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Dress & Stole

c.1805-1815 / c.1814-1830

Palais Galliera

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Wilhelmina Geertruida van Idsinga (Dutch, 1788 - 1819): Self-Portrait (1819) (via Women Artists in History)

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Robe à l'anglaise c. 1780

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Robe à la française

Gallerie des Modes, 1778

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Robe à l'anglaise in red silk damask, England, c. 1775.

(Currently in the collection of the Fashion Institute of Technology.)

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ENGLISH OPEN ROBE of INDIAN COTTON CHINTZ, 1785

White having a polychrome pattern of vining flowers, lacing bodice with drawstring neckline and over-the-elbow length sleeve, bodice lined in white muslin, pleated skirt with slight train.

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1760s Woman’s dress in two parts (robe, petticoat) / Robe a la française (France)

silk satin weave with weft patterning floats (faconee); silk plain weave with discontinous patterning wefts (taffeta); silk plain weave; linen plain weave

(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Robe a la Francaise, 1775, France.

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Robe à la Française, 1760-80.

Pale blue silk brocade with silvery white floral pattern, lined with linen. The skirt only has silk in front, where it’s viewable, and the bodice buttons in front instead of having a separate stomacher inserted.

National Museum, Oslo

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Court mantua ca. 1760

From National Museums Scotland

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Robe a la francaise

Late 1770s - Early 1780s

John Bright Collection