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Rate the Dress: 1920’s velvet

This week’s 1920’s velvet Rate the Dress pick is inspired by the Baltic Sea. I’m fascinated by how different the colour of the Baltic is to the Pacific and Abel Tasman seas that I’m used to: so green to their azure.

Dress, 1900-1909 (1906-9), warp printed silk, 'Landum Minneapolis', Goldstein Museum of Design, 006.043.003

Rate the Dress: summery chiné silks 1906-9

Published by The Dreamstress

To celebrate the launch of the Persis Corset, this week’s Rate the Dress is something that might have been worn over a corset just like the Persis: a 1906-9 gown in chiné silk

Rate the Dress: 1840’s stripes, rosettes and hem ruffles

Published by The Dreamstress

This 1840s day dress is made from a wool gauze with a striking large-scale stripe pattern in blue and beige. The stripes are used to striking effect on the bodice, with the bold pattern skillfully pleated in to the waist…