hats and laces

Worth evening dress, 1902

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Peggy Hoyt evening dress ca. 1927 via The Meadow Brook Hall Historic Costume Collection

THIS SHALL BE MINE

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1920s dress via Timeless Vixen Vintage on Etsy

Evening dress designed by les Callot Soeurs, 1925-26

Evening dress, 1870

Evening dress, 1865

“Partie Fine” dress by Christian Dior, spring/summer 1951.

(I got an anonymous request for 1940s and 1950s evening gowns, hence the many posts dedicated to these recently. Hope you guys don’t mind.)

Would wear this to my prom!

“Palomita” evening dress by Christian Dior, fall/winter 1953–1954.

“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

Reception “princess line” dress made from linen, organdy and Valenciennes lace, 1880.

(Kyoto Costume Institute)

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ca 1890 Evening dress by House of Drécoll

Evening gown designed by Pierre Balmain, 1961

I love its simplicity! Would wear it any day.