Day dress, 1860s
The MFA’s public collections search function, which is handled by an external vendor, is currently offline.
PLAID SILK PARTY DRESS (?), c. 1865 1 piece, leno weave silk in blue & white plaid w/ touches of green & yellow, vertically ruc...
Last week I showed you Joanna of Castille in full turn of the 16th century traditional Spanish royal attire – traditional in the sense that even within her own time, it was a historical costume. Though the pseudo-pregnant look wasn’t popular in a modern sense, you gave the dress points for being exactly what a Queen’s ensemble should be: striking, regal, and elegant, so it came in at a very impressive 8.8 out of 10. While last week’s dress looked to the past and tradition for its inspiration, and was full of subtle meaning and allusions, this week’s dress is all about the latest technology, and relies on simple, bold, almost blunt design for its impact. This mid 1860s dress from the Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti is made from lavish amounts of silk satin dyed in the latest shade of aniline yellow. The bold yellow hue is further highlighted by the use of contrasting black lace trim. The lace is quite modern in design, and was possibly machine-made, further highlighting the dresses modernity. …
Picture 003
Girl’s Dress c.1860 United States Philadelphia Museum of Art
Robe à Transformation 1865 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Up until the mid-19th century, almost all dyes were made from materials found in plants (indigo, woad, woad, madder, brazilwood, tumeric and others), animals (shellfish purple, cochineal), and minerals. While these dyes could produce an amazing range of colours, there were still some colours that couldn’t be produced by natural means, and some of the colours that could be produced by natural means were inclined to run, fade, or to destroy the very fabrics they dyed. Then, in 1856 William Henry Perkin, a young chemistry student, working at home, after hours, in a makeshift laboratory, trying to create a chemically identical artificial version of quinine (a very valuable plant-based drug which was used to treat malaria), thought to experiment with the results of another failed attempt. The result of his experiment on his experiment was mauveine (also known as Perkin’s mauve, aniline purple, harmaline,Tyrian purple, plain old mauve, and, if you want to be extremely technical, 3-amino-2, ±9-dimethyl-5-phenyl-7-(p-tolylamino)phenazinium acetate). Mauveine was a combination of aniline (a common extract of coal tar) and other compounds which …
Простое совпадение, что эрмитажная выставка , которую я посетила, и этот пост посвящены одной и той же теме: придворному костюму. На самом деле, я уже давно хотела привлечь ваше внимание к замечательному фильму Л. Висконти «Людвиг». Самой же, на мой взгляд, визуально роскошной сценой этого фильма…
Visiting dress, late 1860's, Augusta Auctions
140 Washington St. Boston, Massachusettes. 1860's
Day dress 1860s The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Ball Gown 1865 Wien Museum
Day dress, 1860’s From the Kent State University Museum on Pinterest
Object Name: Dress Object Number: 1966-01-154 Description: Dress of printed cotton; repeating design of solid yellow vertical s...
