Rate the Dress: Perky yellow 1780s
This week’s Rate the Dress is a 1780s frock which combines sleek taffeta and a smooth bodice with an abundance of poofs and frills.
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Rate the Dress: Brilliant Blue Bustle Era
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.
Rate the Dress: an early 19th century embroidered morning dress
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.