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darius-cordell-custom-dresses · 1 year

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(via Style C2021-ChantalC – Pastel colored formal ball gown for Prom or Quinceanera)

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#quinceañera #fashion #darius cordell #dresses #prom dresses #designer dresses #designer gowns #formal dresses #fashion designers #designers #dallas texas #quinceanera dresses #prom gowns #custom wedding dresses #formal ball gowns #ball gowns #texas #dress designers

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pinknumber5 · 6 months

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#pink #satin dress #ball gown #femme formal #500+

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vintagesimstress · 10 months

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1850: Night at the Opera (in collaboration with The Royal Thornolia Chronicles)

After my months-long Celtic spree, the time has come to briefly return to my old era of interest...

May I present to you a small 1850s set, made together with amazing Ali, the author of @theroyalthornoliachronicles! We're both so excited to finally share it with you all 💗 Make sure to check Ali's post for her half of the collaboration - practically necessary if you want your mid-Victorian gentlemen to be properly dressed for the evening!

While Ali dealt with the men, I focused - surprise surprise - on the ladies. And made two evening dresses, both inspired by the same fashion plate from ca. 1850:

If you follow Ali's story, you probably remember that a certain mademoiselle Eleanor Valery wore the dress on the right to an opera event. The dress on the left also made a short appearance, as it (or rather: its beta version) was worn by my simself Cecile, who was kindly invited to participate in the evening as well (no, that's not my real name. I just asked my husband to give me a random female French name, and that was the first thing he came up with ;)). And so both dresses are named after those characters: Eleanor and Cecile.

Both come in 29 swatches and I swear all of those colour combos come straight from mid-Victorian fashion plates - even if Ali claimed some of them remind her of 1980s Barbies ;)

polycount: ca. 17K for Eleanor (that's HIGH my friends, you have been warned. Believe me or not, it's mostly the fault of all those tiny deco flowers) and 7,5 for Cecile

Base Game compatible

HQ mod compatible (pictures taken with the mod)

Cecile uses glass shader for lace transparency = won’t work properly in laptop mode

all LODs

custom thumbnails, bump and specular maps, lots of satin shine

tagged as everyday and formal

found under long dress subcategory

colour tagged

disallowed for random

PDNs included if anyone wants to make recolours. You don’t need them for the mesh to work.

You might notice that they vary slightly in style, and that's because I put an insane amount of work into texturing Cecile, as somehow I couldn't get it to look any satisfactory with my usual methods. I love the result, but the whole process was so convoluted that I'm not even sure if I could still retrace all the steps, let alone redo Eleanor in the same style. So we're left with this small discrepancy between both dresses. Hope you don't mind!

DOWNLOAD on my Patreon (free, no ads or early access)!

And now, once again, jump over to The Royal Thornolia Chronicles for the other half of the goodies :)

#ts4cc #adultfemale #victorian #victorian sims #victorian cc #1850s #formal #ball gown

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daisda · 4 months

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Daisda Light Blue Sweetheart Mermaid Spaghetti Straps Prom Dress With Beads

#fashion dress #party dress #evening dress #prom dress #formal dress #ball gown #green dress #sequinsdress #mint dressing #greendres #long prom dress #green

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koroart · 1 year

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Executive dysfunction kicked me in the ass today but at least I managed to doodle these lil rascals ✨

#cyril is a GD you cannot and will not fight me on this #anyways the formal attire is cute ngl #saves me the trouble of designing a ball gown for lysithea lol #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fe3h cyril #cyril fe3h #cyril fire emblem #lysithea von ordelia #lysithea fe3h #fe3h lysithea #cyril x lysithea #cysithea

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marzipanandminutiae · 1 year

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Hot Take

museums should label 19th-century women’s clothing primarily by formality (except in the case of garments with specific purposes, eg. “cycling costume” or “nightgown”), not by the 10,000 different terms they might be called at the time

my reasoning is that the current hodgepodge of terms, while technically accurate to the period:

1. reinforces the myth that middle- or upper-class women used to always change their dresses many times a day No Matter What, rather than what seems to me the primary-source-supported reality- that they changed situationally, as necessary

2. promotes unnecessary disconnect between the past and the present. we have varying degrees of clothing formality today, just without specific terms for each one. they had garments that could serve for multiple purposes and be dressed up or down with accessories back then. but because we don’t talk about an “afternoon dress” vs. a “ball gown” and they didn’t talk about the dress code for a party being “nice casual” vs. “dressy.” there’s this false idea that our systems of clothing changes/formality are Totally Different. which is really not the case, I think

3. even they couldn’t agree on what to call each individual outfit! I’ve seen fashion plates in magazines where the textual description and the label on the image give the same dress different names

this post brought to you by: Marzi Has Seen Too Many Gowns Labeled “Evening Gown” On Museum Websites Apparently For Their Formality When In Truth They Do Not Have The Single Factor That Usually Made A Dress Strictly For Evening At The Time (namely, revealing more skin about the chest and arms) And Therefore Would Have Stood Just As Well For Formal Daytime Events

#dress history #museums #fashion history #19th century #like no you would not necessarily change from Nightgown to Morning Dress to Afternoon Dress to Dinner Dress to Evening Dress every day #'morning dress' is usually basically what we'd call a fancy bathrobe anyway #'afternoon dress' seems to basically be another term for 'cocktail dress' or semi-formal #if you're not going to a fancy event at any time during the day then a 'day dress' would have served until bedtime #or a 'walking dress' although sometimes there's a difference in skirt length there #MAYBE you might have had to change for dinner with your family if they were very formal but #yeah no they would have found changing a zillion times EVERY DAY as tiresome and pointless as we do #(generally. I'm sure some particularly fashion-obsessed socialites were Down but they were the exception even in their own class)#'promenade gown' literally just means 'fancy day dress'#'opera gown' 'ball gown' and 'evening gown' all seem to be basically interchangeable #in interpreting for the public we should not fall into their trap of making this more complex than it needs to be

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resplendentoutfit · 13 days

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Festooned in Flowers: A Victorian Fashion Trend of the 1870s and 1880s

Artificial flowers are much used both for hair ornaments and as trimming on the gown – the largest size roses possible made of silk or velvet in black, white, or different colors with the dewdrop effect of rhinestones or diamonds. – Vogue, 1901

Some dresses, such as the gown below, were trimmed with elaborate garlands of flowers.

Right: Gustave Boulanger (French, Portrait de Madame Lambinet, née Nathalie Sinclair • 1887 • Musée Lambinet, Versailles

Left: Rogelio de Egusquiza y Barrena (Spanish, 1845-1915) • The End of the Ball • 1879

Flower garlands appeared draped over the entire gown, or just the skirt of a gown. Flower clusters were also popular on the shoulder, the middle of the neckline, and on a strategic placement where the fabric was gathered. Sometimes it seems they were used everywhere at once.

The Art of Dressing Well. A Complete Guide to Economy, Style and Propriety, published in 1870 advises:

“Yet, even in the full dress requisite for evening parties, the rule should be to dress well, becomingly, and appropriately, but not obtrusive, and above all, not gaudily, or too much. It is a crime against good taste to be too much in excess of the company, yet care must be bestowed upon the costume, the hostess expects it, and the guests observe its neglect. It is the test of good taste to be in the foremost rank of guests for appropriate dress, but never in advance of others."

Hmmm...it seems to me through today's lens that the antique gown in the photo above is "too much".

Short, or what we now call cap sleeves, were essential for formal evening wear in any season, as were sleeveless dresses. Off-the-shoulder and low-necklines were also very popular.

Glittering jewelry was often worn – necklaces in double-strands, dangle earrings, bracelets, and pearls. Some fashion plates and gowns in museums show women wearing a thin velvet ribbon around the neck.

Long gloves were a must. Hats were not considered appropriate in formal wear but fancy comb and pins were. As stated above, fabric flowers were also often used to decorate hairstyles that were mostly up-dos. Feathers were sometimes also tucked into the hair. Some hairstyles were very elaborate. And then there is the ubiquitous fan; either held closed or open to show off a special design.

#fashion history #women's fashion history #victorian fashion #victorian fashion plates #victorian formal attire #ball gowns #victorian flower decorated gowns #history of fashion #the resplendent outfit art & fashion blog #gustave courbet #rogelio de egusquiza y barrena #victorian art #art #art history #french artist #genre painting #19th century european art #painting

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azij-designs · 5 months

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Bumblebee inspired ballgown

Part of my steampunk bumblebee collection

#art #artist #artwork #autisticartist #trending #disabledartist #honey bees #bumblebees #bumblebee #honeycomb #honeybee #bees #bee #ball gown #formal dress #dress #fashion design #steam powered giraffe #steampunk

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ells-diary · 3 months

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#style #stylish #fashion girl #girl #fashion #style inspiration #formal gown #ball gown

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devdas5z · 7 months

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Alessia Xya

#alessia xya #blue gown #ball gown #elegant #formal wear #earrings #fashion

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nadineross · 6 months

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the mythical girls of oasis springs 🏜️🌵

👻 angel lusk — gloomy, creative, loner 😇 malak asghar — loyal, good, cheerful 😈 lilith grimm — evil, erratic, goofball 🧜‍♀️ marella reeve — gloomy, romantic, loves outdoors

#* mine #nudity //#bc malak has her tiddies out (she has a 6 pack shes not gonna sleep in a shirt!)#i wanna fill up the town with cute girls!!! idk what creatures to do next tho. maybe a harpy (bc im a dyke lmao)#also bats told me that the formal tag is supposed to be like. a ball gown black tie event thing.#genuinely thought it was supposed to be workwear 😭😭😭

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ballbellas · 1 year

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