1830 dresses

This week's Rate the Dress is a morning dress featuring a fascinating 1830s fabric: a cotton print with geometric and floral patterns in fawn and green.

Have a say on an 1830s evening dress in delicate white muslin decorated with rich gold embroidery. Is it elegant or ridiculous?

Wedding

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Museum of Costume Art. "Color Through The Decades & Costumes and Accessories Worn by Queen Alexandra of England," February 25, 1941–June 21, 1941.New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Dress Rehearsal," August 1–October 28, 2001

Wedding dress, 1835, American

1830s Afternoon Dress | The Met Museum

This week we’re going from vibrant purple to restful green, and from a almost universally popular timeperiod, to one that’s a bit less of a guaranteed crowd pleaser. Can it score a hat-trick of 9.5+ ratings (without any hats involved)? Last Week: a 1912 evening dress by Lucile So many of you loved everything about this dress, and even those who didn’t rate it a perfect 10 only had the tiniest quibbles with its design: finding the colour not quite perfect, or the beads a bit clunky. Even so…

This Romantic Era dress is a modified version of our Brooks Dress and is inspired by two original gowns- one c. 1838 formerly in the Tasha Tudor Collection and the other c. 1835 in the collection o…

I started thinking about a 1830s dress quite a while back, mostly inspired by the wonderful Nikki, who does this era so well. About half a year ago, the theme for the new-years ball in Ghent was an…

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Evening dress, 1830′s From the Turun museokeskus