Victorian evening gown

Evening dress ca. 1895

Two-piece ball gown, by Jeanne Paquin, c. 1895. Photo ©: Stephan Klonk / Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Via Europeana Fashion.

This project was inspired by the beautiful paintings Auguste Toulmouche painted in the late 1870's and early 1880's. The idea was to make a ...

1910s, Evening gown by the House of Worth

evening

This was my favorite outfit for Costume College this year, and I felt like it deserved a blog post! I'm also hoping to get back into bloggin...

~1890s bustled gown~ I feel like the drapes in the front would make it fit weird... but still really pretty!

Evening gown | RISD Museum

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Evening dress with presentation train, United Kingdom, ca. 1880s. Plain and brocaded pink silk faille. Photo: Anne Bissonnette. Univ. of Alberta

It's made of duchess silk satin. Bodice is lined with cotton and covered with cotton bobbinet. All bodice seams are boned. Skirt is faced with silk satin and it has two cotton bobbinnet over layers. White tulle layer is covered with c. 7000 silver sequins, individually attached. Black tulle has a Greek key appliqué that I cut out of silk velvet and hand stitched in place. Rows of silver and gunmetal sequins border the tulle layers. I also added paper flowers as a decoration. Straight seams…

Beautiful Regency dress

1890's Silk Dress

I’ve been quite busy working on several projects, but none are quite ready yet to be blogged about. (For progress pictures etc. see my instagram and facebook page). So for now, some more very…