Vintage Evening Dresses

A selection of historical evening gowns with intricate details, showcasing fashion from different eras, including the 19th and 20th centuries.

Baptismal dress, Heiltje de Neef, c. 1860 - c. 1875 Baptismal dress of white cotton or linen batist with tuldoor stop work. Along the neck and arm holes, the dress is trimmed with a founded scalloped edge and on the skirt with three wide lace strips. Added a botherless underskirt, a few loose sleeves with a border of bobbin and a cotton shirt. Ribbon side. Netherlands cotton (textile). bobbin lace Baptismal dress of white cotton or linen batist with tuldoor stop work. Along the neck and arm holes, the dress is trimmed with a founded scalloped edge and on the skirt with three wide lace strips. Added a botherless underskirt, a few loose sleeves with a border of bobbin and a cotton shirt. Ribbon side. Netherlands cotton (textile). bobbin lace

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Evening dress 1908-11 Herbert Luey American. Evening dress 173568

$Dress. Culture: French. Designer: Paul Poiret (French, Paris 1879-1944 Paris). Date: 1928.In Poiret's oeuvre, leitmotifs distinguish his designs that, otherwise, conform to prevailing fashions. This dress, from the year before his couture house closed, reflects the period of transition from the recto-verso planarity characteristic of the 1920s chemise dress to a period when the cubistic fracturing of a garment made a design's construction comprehensible only in rotation. This spiraling of the fabric and the resulting asymmetry appeared with greater frequency in the work of Poiret's contemporaries, but the designer's preference for draping on the body, seen in works such as his 1919 'Paris' evening coat, suggests an early predisposition for this approach to dressmaking. Where Poiret differs from other designers, most notably the great innovator of the bias cut, Madeleine Vionnet, is in his preference for working on the straight grain.The innovative cut of this dress is masked by the a$