hats and laces

Ball gown by Jacques Doucet, c.1902

American ball gown, 1860

Costume Institute at Met

Worth 1900-1905 ball gown

“May” dress from Christian Dior’s spring/summer 1953 collection.

“Nuit D’Aout” ball gown from Christian Dior’s spring/summer 1954 collection.

“Venus” dress from the fall/winter 1949–1950 Christian Dior collection.

“Junon” dress from the fall/winter 1949–50 Christian Dior collection.

In 1949, dresses called “Venus” and “Junon,” or Hera to the Greeks, were among the most coveted of Dior’s designs. “Junon“‘s magnificent skirt of ombréed petals, like abstractions of peacock feathers without their “eyes,” obliquely references the bird associated with the Queen of the Olympians.

(Met Museum)

Submitted by alyssalerner

Ball gown, c.1880

This Balenciaga ball gown from spring-summer 1948 was inspired by Marie Antoinette and her famous fashion sense.

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Ball Gown | c. 1872

Evening dress from 1815.

I feel like having a Regency evening. Only good things can come out of that :)

Alfred Stevens, After the Ball, 1874

Ball gown 1900-1910, My Fair Lady