historicalfashion
A blog posting historical fashion garments, portraits, or drawings from the Middle Ages to the 1950s, and some special exceptions for later dates. This includes photographs, explanation of the garment, and historical details. Long live the past!
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You can follow my personal tumblr here.
Find your favorite eras by navigating the tags here!
Ask me anything and tell me what you'd like to see!
Four-part evening dress, MFA Boston, c.1860
The cherry on top! This is the exact dress I thought of when I heard “plain ballgown”.
Ballgown | 1850
Reblogging myself for Rachel - more plaid silk ballgowns to come!
The gorgeous ballgown that Meg wears at Belle Moffat’s coming out party in Little Women that I am planning on recreating in a dusty rose/plum taffeta!
Ballgown
Pierre Balmain, 1953
The Indianapolis Museum of Art
drool
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Ball Dress (French), MFA Boston, 1825
Evening dress ca. 1865 via The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WOW.
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