March72013

fripperiesandfobs:

Worth dress ca. 1890

From Vintage Textile

I have a dress almost exactly like this.  It’s blue, and has lace instead of fabric on the sleeves, as well as a bigger bustle and no lace on the bottom of the skirt.  Really neat to see something so similar…

(via hoop-skirts-and-corsets)

February252013
tawnyscostumesandcuriosities:

cupcake-curiosities:


Evening Dress, Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 - 1973)
House of Lesage
Date: 1939
Culture: French
Fabrics: Silk, Leather, Plastic, Metal
Met Museum Online Collections
This particular evening dress was accessorized with a belt with a working music box as the buckle. 


SQUEAL!!

tawnyscostumesandcuriosities:

cupcake-curiosities:

Evening Dress, Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 - 1973)

House of Lesage

Date: 1939

Culture: French

Fabrics: Silk, Leather, Plastic, Metal

Met Museum Online Collections

This particular evening dress was accessorized with a belt with a working music box as the buckle. 

SQUEAL!!

(via hoop-skirts-and-corsets)

February162013
omgthatdress:

Evening Dress
Jacques Doucet, 1900-1905
Les Arts Décoratifs

omgthatdress:

Evening Dress

Jacques Doucet, 1900-1905

Les Arts Décoratifs

January312013
omgthatdress:

Dress
1841-1843
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

omgthatdress:

Dress

1841-1843

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

January242013
omgthatdress:

Dress
1857-1859
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

omgthatdress:

Dress

1857-1859

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

January222013
omgthatdress:

Dress
1884
The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Someday, I will own all the pretty things…

omgthatdress:

Dress

1884

The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Someday, I will own all the pretty things…

January212013
brispeak:

lace-me-tighter:

Beautiful Steampunk ensemble. 

I want this…

Get in my closet…

brispeak:

lace-me-tighter:

Beautiful Steampunk ensemble. 

I want this…

Get in my closet…

(via lace-me-tighter)

5PM
omgthatdress:

Evening Dress
1914
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This reminds me of one of my own gowns…

omgthatdress:

Evening Dress

1914

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This reminds me of one of my own gowns…

1AM
omgthatdress:

Dress
1790
Museo del Traje

omgthatdress:

Dress

1790

Museo del Traje

January202013
omgthatdress:

“Grand Habite” believed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette
1780s
The Royal Ontario Museum

omgthatdress:

“Grand Habite” believed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette

1780s

The Royal Ontario Museum

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