#19th century dress

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Dress.

Designer/Maker: H. Leitner

Date: ca. 1886

Medium: Machine-woven wool fabric with velvet and lace decoration, steel buckle, machine and hand stitching.

[historical-fashion-polls]

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening dress

c. 1890

by American designer Herbert Huey (1860-1916)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[pastlivesfinery]

Revue de la Mode, 1872

[eyesfullofmoon]

Imperial Russian court dress worn by Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg. x

Designed by Charles Frederick Worth in Paris, France, c. 1888.

[lochiels]

Woman’s Dress

Date: ca. 1870 Culture: British Medium: Silk

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Dress, American, 1880-1885.

via mfa.org

[janebolt]

La mode illustree 1891-92

[samissadagain]

Afternoon Ensemble ca. 1885-1888, American, silk/metal

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Tea Gown.

Place of origin: England

Date: 1895-1900

Medium: Silk velvet, embroidered with coloured silks

[historical-fashion-polls]

submitted by @fuzzyhedgepig 🖤🖤

[frostedmagnolias]

French dress

c. 1872

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[pastlivesfinery]

La Mode Illustrée, 1882

[die-rosastrasse]

Ball gown, 1840-41

Maker: Unknown

From the collection of Wien Museum

[vincentbriggs]

Here are some (not very good) photos of me wearing it! I'll have to get some better ones at my parents house later, because there is absolutely no good space to take photos in my apartment. I don't have any other 1830's things to go with it, and don't currently have plans to make any. I just wanted this dressing gown specifically.

Anyways! There are 6,957 triangles, all sewn together by machine, but most of the actual garment construction is by hand. The unevenness from all the patchwork seam allowances made it very fussy, and the tailoring took at least twice as long as it would have in a normal fabric. The velvet was also a challenge, being the soft drapey wobbly kind, but I managed. I accidentally made my triangles a bit smaller than the ones on the original (C. 1835, Powerhouse Museum collection.) which means there are more triangles than there had to be, but that's ok. I really enjoyed doing the patchwork, it's the most wonderfully soothing brainless task ever and I will definitely make more patchwork things.

I'm very happy with how it turned out! It's comfortable and fits pretty well, and is warm but not excessively so.

I kept timesheets for everything, and I haven't added them up yet, but once I do I'll know exactly how long all of this took.

I also filmed it, but the youtube video won't be out for quite a while, because I still have to write and record some more stuff and then edit a very very very very large amount of clips.

[janebolt]

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