06 February 2011

Butterfly dress from the 1890s


This blog has featured quite a few butterfly-related items, including ladies dresses (here, here, and here).  This latest addition comes from the curiously-entitled tumblr Sex, vintage, & Royals.

2 comments:

  1. MelFebruary 7, 2011 at 3:52 PM

    Oh, lovely. Any idea where the original source is? I'd love to get a closer look at the embroidery.

    (Also, I love how the dress gives a sense of three-dimensional shape, instead of just trying for height and minimizing everything else. Yes, I'm nostalgic for an era I didn't live in.)

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  2. MinnesotastanFebruary 7, 2011 at 3:58 PM

    Mel, to look for an answer I typed "butterfly dress 1890s" into Google Image Search and got lots of hits.

    This one -

    http://the-rustic-victorian.blogspot.com/2010/05/met-fashion-exibition-1890-1940s.html

    looks like the same dress, at an exhibit at the Met (last year...)

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