Kate Strong photographed at a costume ball in 1883. What does she arrive in? None other than a full cat costume - featuring a ‘puss’ choker, and a real taxidermy cat atop her head. As a matter of fact the entire costume was made out of cats, the bodice, and the overskirt too.
Source: hatchingcatnyc.com, collections.mcny.org, The New York Times.”
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Ball Gown
Emile Pingat (Paris, France)
c.1864
The MET (Accession Number:C.I.69.33.12a–c)
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Ball gown of embroidered net
c. 1820
Great Britain
Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, January 7, 1934
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the carnivale sequence in the terror is already one of the best parts of the show but it would've been even better if it'd had an unsettling dreamlike dance scene
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IVORY PATTERNED SILK TAFFETA EVENING GOWN, MID 1850s
Augusta Auctions
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Ball Gown
Driscoll (United States)
c.1900
Gift of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1976
The MET (Accession Number: 1976.134.14a, b)
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Gown and train of Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte
(Bust of Napoleon and painting of Marie Louise in the background)
Museo Glauco Lombardi
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