#regency gown

[frostedmagnolias]

Ball gown of embroidered net

c. 1820

Great Britain

Victoria and Albert Museum

[orionis13]

Who wants to be bloodthirsty time traveling lesbians with me

[empirearchives]

Empire style dress / empirepuku; naisten puku

C. 1810s, Napoleonic era

(Historical Collections, Armfelt Collection, Jan Lindroth, Porvoo)

The National Museum of Finland

[greetingsdr]

Me-made ballgown for The Lafayette Ball in Fayetteville, NC this weekend. What a fun time!

[artschoolglasses]

White muslin gown with white embroidery, English, 1805-10

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[marzipanandminutiae]

Today’s mood:

Overwhelmed by the scope of the task that is replacing my historical wardrobe and fabric stash. Just in terms of both cost, and how limited the availability of silk and wool at my local fabric stores has become even compared to when I made some of the gowns I lost, and bought some of the fabric

[jewellery-box]

Silk bobbin lace gown, blonde, with a high waist and very low-cut front and back, anonymous, c. 1805-1825. Rijks Museum

[trishmishtree]

Making a regency gown: Finished

Here, have some dogshit-quality photos of the finished dress because my phone is a worthless overpriced potato masquerading as a camera

I swear it looks better in person.

I'm actually pretty pleased with the final gown even though I used 100% the wrong fabric and the skirt could use a whole entire panel more width. The floral embroidery on the hem (4th pic) came pre-embroidered with the fabric, but the dots and vines were hand-embroidered by me.

I finished the embroidery 3 weeks ago but didn't post pics because I was still holding out hope that aforementioned dogshit camera would cooperate. And well, I finally said fuck it, I'm tired of trying to get decent photos while standing on a chair in front of my bathroom mirror while 19/20 of the pics I try to take come out blurry. These 4 photos are just the least terrible of the bunch 🤬

[maidaaart]

Butterfly wings or Butterfly fans?

This is such a random combination of an idea I had (butterfly fans) + my having rewatched Bridgerton season 2 for the 50th time or so

[threadtalk]

Sweet dreams are made of dressing gowns, especially in green! You know how I'm always going on about how colorful the past was? Well, here is a perfect example.

Morning gowns or dressing gowns were worn by men and women, well, in the morning or around the house. Born of the banyan craze of the 17th and 19th centuries, expensive and often lavish robes like this were popular well into the 20th century.

This cotton gown from the John Bright Collection dates from the last part of the 1820s. It's especially decadent because the pattern was made by a process called Lapis. It combined block printing techniques (remember chintz?) with resist printing, pastes, and dying and overdying, to create mind-blowing detail. Suffice it to say, it was very expensive to produce Lapis dyed fabrics, so we know this wearer had access to lots of bucks.

And yes, before you ask: this does date to the time of Scheele's Green, so there's a chance it's got some arsenic in it. Either way, I'd love a (non toxic) version of this gown!

[frostedmagnolias]

Black velvet evening dress

c. 1823-1825

The Victoria and Albert Museum

[fashion-plates]

La Mode, 1830

{click for higher res}

[empirearchives]

Empire style dress, early 1800s, Napoleonic era

(Coutau-Bégarie)

[lindonwald]

Anhalt <3

[awindinthelantern]

Evening dress, 1818. The MET.