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vintagefashionplates · 3 months

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Robe de diner.

The dinner dress. Vintage fashion plate, November 1903.

Supplement: Latest Paris fashions, presented to the subscribers to the Queen. Vintage fashion plates. via x

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#vintage fashion plates #supplement for the queen subscribers #french fashions #vintage fashion #victorian fashion #vintage evening dress

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professorpski · 2 years

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The black frock fitted her like a glove. It was made with the small square yoke and long, close sleeves, softened by a wrist-frill falling nearly to the knuckles. It outlined her figure to the waist and fell full- skirted to the ground, with a suggestion of the medieval robe. Its dull surface effaced itself not outshining the dull gleam of the academic poplin.

Yes, I want this dress, an urge I often feel when reading of fashion in fiction.

This one was described in 1936 by Dorothy L. Sayers in her novel Gaudy Night, a book in which Sayers made clear that she believed a woman of sense knew how to dress appropriately for every occasion. The occasion here was Gaudy Night when the alums of the women’s college set at Oxford University in England came back for a celebration. Her heroine, Harriet Vane, herself a writer of mysteries wears the dress. The dress is not only quietly magnificent, Vane also knows just how to wear it with the academic robe, the “academic poplin” mentioned, which she must wear over the dress, a tradition of the college.

Vane has come back as an alum and ends up trying to solve two mysteries: who is harassing the women of the college with threats and vandalism? and should she marry Lord Peter Wimsey, the impossibly charming, erudite and wealthy investigator who save her from a murder conviction? The answer to the second question seems obvious to me--yes, go marry the man!-- but Sayers takes just as long to explore the question of marriage for a woman with a professional career in 1936 as she does to uncover the mystery.

#Dorothy Sayers #harriet vane #lord peter wimsey #fashion in fiction #gaudy night #vintage evening dress #vintage fashion #1930s fashion #costume history #dress history #fashion history #academic fashion #oxford university #mystery novels #marriage

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costumeloverz71 · 3 months

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Evening dress, c. 1910-1915

#fashion #vintage #evening dress #early 1900s

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frostedmagnolias · 4 months

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Evening dress

c. 1905

Maison Stitch Filiale

Museum of Applied Arts

#such a spectacular dress #edwardian gown #edwardian era #edwardian dress #edwardian fashion #edwardian #1900s evening gown #1900s dress #historic fashion #history of fashion #fashion design #historical fashion #fashion history #dress history #vintage fashion #vintage dress #frostedmagnolias

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lookingbackatfashionhistory · 7 days

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~ Evening Dress and Jacket.

Date: ca. 1965

Designer/Maker: Zara Holt; MAGG (Melbourne)

Medium: Silk, cotton, plastic, synthetic fibres.

#fashion history #history of fashion #dress #fashion #vintage clothing #vintage fashion #vintage #vintage dress #1960's fashion #1960's dress #1960's #zara holt #evening dress and jacket #ca. 1965

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desolatus · 2 months

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Evening Dress

C. 1903

Jacques Doucet

#jacques doucet #1900s #historical fashion #history #fashion #vintage #20th century #evening dress #dress

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fashionsfromhistory · 6 months

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“Autriche” from the Longue Collection

Christian Dior

Autumn/Winter 1951-1952

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 2015.90.1.1)

#evening dress #fashion history #vintage fashion #christian dior #1950s #20th century #new look #fall #autumn #winter #france #silk #velvet #orange #purple #grey #royal ontario museum

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mote-historie · 6 months

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Art Nouveau style Robe du Soir by Baron Christoff von Drecoll, Les Modes Paris, 1914

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satans-knitwear · 3 months

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Yes, i can shapeshift into magical creatures.

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me (check out the full unsensored set on my OF!)

#I even found a fluffy cardigan to wear with this bc its actually horrible weather today and I'm v cold just like this #I am so pleased with how this look came together though!!!#This dress was £8 second hand!!! I am obsessed with the colour and the pwetty pattern!!! Very glad I managed a whole look inspired by it!!#satans knitwear #alt pinup #pinup girl #pretty lingerie #Plain top stockings #Vintage vibes #Vintage inspired #This look is waaaaay too springy for the current season but I guess I shall just play pretend and light the fire to feel that warmth #bi girl #cheeky #uk girl #wlw

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daguerreotyping · 10 months

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Tintype of a handsome pair, the man in front leaning cozily back into his companion's embrace, c. 1875-1880

#love the contrast between the rather reserved expressions and the very relaxed and even playful body language #interestingly this guy seems to be missing a portion of his left pinky finger #brightened for tumblr—refer solely to seller's pic if buying #19th century #1800s #1870s #19th century fashion #1870s fashion #men's fashion #menswear #fashion history #historical fashion #historical dress #19th century photography #tintype #ferrotype #19th century men #vintage men #gay interest

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countess--olenska · 4 months

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Evening dress, circa early 1920s

#historical fashion #1920s #vintage #evening dress

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inthedarktrees · 1 year

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Elizabeth Taylor wearing a velvet evening dress, circa 1950

#elizabeth taylor #1950s #1950s fashion #50s #50s fashion #vintage fashion #old hollywood #velvet dress #evening dress #vintage #photo edit

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professorpski · 2 years

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A Fairy Princess Dress: Vogue 1931

This re-issued pattern from 1957 will make you wish you had a ball to attend. It has an enormous skirt, which really needs a stiff petticoat to make the most of it, and comes with two strapless bodice options. One, has decorative lacing down the front and is attached to the skirt. The other one, the fairy princess one, has a separate “overbodice” as they call it, which goes over the dress and which has a pleated frill added along the top edge, a draped apron below (although they call it a pannier,” French for basket) and then a great, big bow at the back which closes with 10 buttons.

The late 1950s was the era of the hour-glass silhouette, and while romantic looks in evening dresses had been popular since the late 1940s, and was clearly the selling point here, notice how spare the grey version was, a sign of change to come. The dress requires over 10 yards of fabric at 60″ wide for the dress itself (it is mostly the skirt) and the additional overbodice takes up around 3 yards.

Quite something. In fact, I am pretty sure you can’t even put it on by yourself in the bowed version. As to the making, remember that strapless dresses are built from the waist upwards. The boning which is inserted within the lining is what defies gravity for you, and you should definitely muslin the bodice to make sure it fits nicely. I don’t see any indication in the description, but most strapless dresses also benefit from an inner belt which helps hold the shape of the dress in and up as well.

The fabrics recommended are ones to make you sigh: silk organdie, taffeta, moire, faille, chiffon and crepe, as well as barathea which is a silk/cotton birds-eye weave with one fabric as the warp and one as the weft. No, I have never seen one either. Notice some are crispy, and some very soft and drapey, so first decide how big you want to appear and whether you want to add that petticoat. and then pick your fabric. If you compare the width of the skirts in the illustrations v. those in the line drawings and you see what a petticoat would do.

You can find it at your local fabric store or here online: https://somethingdelightful.com/vogue-patterns/v1931