#1880s style

[la-belle-histoire]

Morning Walk, John Singer Sargent. 1888.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Black and White October

The Gilded Age (s1e9, "Let the Tournament Begin") / Carrie Coon as Bertha Russell (plus Donna Murphy as Lina Astor)

Mrs. Russell's dresses are always striking and sometimes border on the avant-garde. For her daughter's debutante ball, she really pulls out the stops with this magnificent off-white gown adorned with appliqued branch motifs in black. Notice how the designs extend past the edge of the bodice and also spill onto the silver-grey gauze capelet at her shoulders.

As a bonus, we also have Donna Murphy as Mrs. Astor, who also wore black and white to the ball. Her black gown with white ornaments is more conservative than Mrs. Russell's, giving it a more strongly period look.

[statelibraryqueensland]

Details from Mathilde Helene Lundager (nee Biltoft) as a young woman, Rockhampton, ca. 1881

Original high res image located here: LINK

[brickisshit]

@eyehatepopes me and our good friend viv as porcelain dolls <3 (as drawn by myself)

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Medieval style earrings, 1880, Russia.

[pastlivesfinery]

Journal des Demoiselles, 1883

[dyingbuck]

the women of red dead redemption — rdr 2 side characters

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Kate Greenaway, from the Almanac for 1884

via digitalcollections.nypl.org

[balestrra]

The Mirage Saloon proprietress Primadonna, and her trusted employee, Ms Rose

[tygerland]

Vincent van Gogh The Dance Hall in Arles. 1888. Oil on canvas: 65 × 81 cm. (25 × 32 in).

[oflgtfol]

finally read flatland for myself. read it in its entirety today during my free time on my 12 hour shift. really good book but maybe would have stuck more in my mind if i hadnt seen the janky 2007 animated adaptation several times before reading it. but then again my coworker saw me reading it and said they had tried to read it but it was too confusing trying to visualize everything, so i at least had a leg up there since all i could think of was the characters from the 2007 adaptation. anyway i think i’m going to rewatch it for the Nth time tonight <3

[la-belle-histoire]

Portrait in White, Frank Weston Benson. 1889.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

May: Purple Redux

Back to the Future, part III / Mary Steenburgen as Clara Clayton

As can be seen from the photos above, the color of this dress varies greatly based on the lighting. In the actual film, it appears as a rich purple and the inset down the front is a much deeper shade, almost black. Photos from an auction show it as much lighter, more of a raspberry-pink, while the dress on display at Universal Studios looks more like it does in the film.

I've included a close-up of the front to show the flower-shaped buttons, the faint floral pattern on the darker inset, and the trim down the sides of the "jacket." In the film, Clara also wears a bar-shaped brooch with her name engraved on it at the neck. Black leather gloves and a hat with black and purple ribbons are the finishing touches.

[resplendentoutfit]

Playing Dress Match-up: a painted dress and the actual dress or a close match.

William Anstey Dolland (British,1858-1929) • The Pet • 1890s

1880s – 1890s dress

[walzerjahrhundert]

Chair from the studio of Hans Makart

circa 1870-1880