Woman's Dress (Robe à la française)

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Woman's Dress (Robe à la française)

France, 1760s-1770s
Costumes; principal attire (entire body)
Silk plain weave (taffeta) with silk supplementary-weft patterning and silk passementerie trim
Center back length (center back): 60 1/2 in. (153.67 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by John Jewett Garland (M.56.1.1)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
  • Blanco F., José and Mary D. Doering, eds. Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, vol. 1, Pre-Colonial Times Through the American Revolution. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016.