1850s Evening Dresses and Gowns

Circa 1855/1858 France or Europe Beautiful day dress with large crinoline dating from the beginning of the Second Empire period. Cream silk taffeta with purple stripes, speckled in leopard-style Chiné silk, inspired by Louis XVI French Fashion. One-part dress with stapled front bodice, crew neck and angled sleeves. Beautiful musketeer finery in Chantilly lace and jet pearl...

Circa 1850/1860 Provence Beautiful dress of Provencal bourgeoisie in fashion of Paris in silk pongé printed in the eighteenth century taste. Silk background printed with a wooden plank with river decoration of flowered branches. Broken stick graphic with dominant yellow, black, pink, blue and green (obtained by superposition of yellow and blue). Dress in two parts, boned bodice with two whalebone, pagoda sleeves with punctured wrists, highlighted by falbalas with double ribbons of silk shaped pleated. Basques bodice open front and held by three ribbons revealing a piece of stomach or modesty in lace. Round skirt with hollow pleats and back staple on cotton belt. Bodice lined with cream glazed cotton and cotton gauze skirt...

Circa 1850 England A crinoline ball-gown in a rich deep blue façonné striped silk, adorned with brocaded tobacco and copper flowered stems. Whalebone bodice is assembled to the skir...