Late 1870s fashion is rarely subtle, and this end-of-the-first-bustle-era reception dress, in vivid sapphire blue satin and black and ivory floral brocading, combines the era’s love of the still-relatively-new aniline dyes and lavish textural trim.
After last week’s smashingly successful evening event, we need something simple but elegant to slip in-to for a relaxed morning. So this week we’re going back in time a century with an embroidered morning dress with wrapped bodice.
This week’s Rate the dress is an all about the late Edwardian take on Ancient Greek & Rome. The saturated colours are characteristic of the 1910s reinterpretation of classical dress. The wearer would have been a goddess in bronze and copper, rather than a marble statue in white.
