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jewellery-box · 11 months
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Evening Dress, circa 1882. Museum McCord.
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• Bustle dress.
Designer/Maker: James Spence and Company
Date: 1885-1890
Place of origin: London
Medium: Silk
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orchidscript · 1 month
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I have sold my soul to the Tea Tray Bustle.
I am a Tea Tray Bustle Bitch.
You can find me and Lady Stardust here, on my bedroom floor, figuring out how to make Queen Victoria’s musical bustle a reality for myself.
Send me your musical bustle song recs ;)
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nix-cosplay · 9 months
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Howls Moving Castle is my favourite Ghibli movie! I wanted to make a Sophie that leaned in to her Victorian design influences. I made a historically accurate corset, bustle and petticoat to go underneath the costume
design by @may123244 / photos by vessmess
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resplendentoutfit · 21 days
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Painting: Władysław Bakałowicz (Polish, 1833-1904) • Protrait of Józefiny z Gumowskich-Amszyńskiej • 1911
Playing Dress Match-up: a painted dress and its exact dress or a close match.
Dress: American (attr.) • c. 1880s • White silk faille & satin • Fitted cuirass-style bodice • 3/4 sleeve • Satin swag over hips • Semi-attached skirt with band of pleated and swagged satin across middle • Hem with pleated faille trimmed with satin • Long asymmetrical waterfall bustle and train • Kent State University Museum website.
It's not the exact dress but the closest match I could find.
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pepoboyz · 10 months
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dressed to impress
based loosely on a ~1883 fashion plate. ofc the series is later on but ienaga is a bustle girlie for life
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dozydawn · 1 year
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Simplicity 5457.
Butterick 3012.
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dresshistorynerd · 2 years
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i hope this isnt too random and is something you can help me with--i'm needing a reference of someone around the 1870s-1880s running, like a dull on sprint, in a bustle dress. would that even be possible? would she just be lifting the dress part up and have the layers underneath be showing? would she pull up the crinoline (if those were worn at the time, i'm sorry i'm too lazy to research atm) as well? i hope the question isnt too broad or confusing. thank you so much!!!!
Hi! Not at all too broad or confusing question!
I'm assuming you mean the Second Bustle Era dress, since it's the more well known and iconic bustle style. The First Bustle Era was roungly the first half of 1870s, then there was Natural Form Era in the middle and the Second Bustle Era was most of 1880s. The two bustle eras were distinctive in style, but they mostly had similar layers. To illustrate the difference here's a fashion plate from the First Bustle Era and another from the second.
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Yes you could run in a bustle dress. As you see especially in the Second Bustle Era dresses, the hem didn't quite reach the ground, which is really the the thing that will get in your way, if it would. As someone who has worn several different full length evening dresses (not very historical though but that's beside the point) and ran and danced in them, I can say the issues only really come when the hem reatches the ground. Then lifting the hem becomes necessary.
A type of cage crinoline was indeed used with the bustle dress, called bustle cage. Unlike the typical crinoline it was only in the back, shaped similarly as 18th century side panniers, because that's where all the volume was, so it wouldn't get in the way when running. There are though some examples of bustle cages that did go all around and simply were more volumous in the back, but I haven't seen any of them being dated into 1880s. The first bustle cage below is from 1887 and the second is from 1870-72.
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A full crinoline though actually helps moving around and running. It was one of the reasons why it become so quickly so widely used in 1850s. It carries the fabric of the dresses keeping them away from the feet.
Even when lifting the hem isn't necessary, it's likely that while running the petticoat would show at least a bit. Shift hem wouldn't likely be seen as it was a bit shorter and the first layer. Petticoat was worn over the bustle cage and would help giving the fashionable silhouette, though some skirts would have a foundation skirt attached to them and then separate petticoat wasn't needed. It was most often white and had more volume in the back often in shape of ruffles. Here's couple of examples, first from 1883 and second from 1886.
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I thought primary source references could be easiest to find regarding dancing and tennis. I thought it might give a nice range of different types of dresses. I didn't find useful painting of dancing in Second Bustle Era gowns, but this one from the First Bustle Era is close enough, I think.
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I found two paintings depicting tennis in bustle gowns, one from the First and another from the Second Bustle Era.
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Tennis was played in the typical summer day dress, which for tennis were traditionally white. So the outfit would have all of the layers like you'd normally have and the dress would be from light breethable materials, light cotton usually, and sometimes a little more loose fitting, so it does work as a good reference for how to move in an average day dress.
Lastly I'll link here a video from Prior Attire channel, where she dresses up in about 1885 dress for tennis and demostrates playing tennis in it. It shows really well how that type of dress moves and how you can pretty easily move and run in it without having to really do anything about it. The full demonstration starts around 23:37 mark, but the full video is useful in showing all the layers that goes into it.
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zoesrepository · 2 years
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@asta.darling
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eva-eyre · 2 years
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all i want is to dress like this all day every day!
image credit: 1, 2, 3,
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jewellery-box · 7 months
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POLONAISE WALKING DRESS, 1870s
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Details from Mathilde Helene Lundager (nee Biltoft) as a young woman, Rockhampton, ca. 1881
Original high res image located here: LINK
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empress-alexandra · 2 years
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Queen Alexandra - consort of King Edward VII - when she was Princess of Wales, 1889.
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operafantomet · 2 years
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For some reason this 1886 dress gives me all kinds of Christine Daaé vibes. Wedding dress meets Wishing dress meets... FAB.
Made by Leitner in Vienna (care of The National Museum in Norway )
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ginshachocosplay · 11 months
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I won Best Original Design at the Sakuracon Cosplay Contest! THEY REALLY LIKED IT AAAAAAAH! Met so many awesome people too! I'm already thinking about what to make for next year!
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bookhoarding · 1 year
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I’m so so close to finishing my Mina Harker bustle dress to celebrate 30 years since Coppola’s Dracula, costumes by Eiko Ishioka.
[ID: Piles of red fabric shaped into pleats and floofs.]
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