Woman's Dress and Petticoat (Robe à l'anglaise)

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Woman's Dress and Petticoat (Robe à l'anglaise)

Dress Made: England; Textile: India, circa 1775
Costumes; principal attire (entire body)
Cotton twill with silk thread embroidery
Center back length (Dress): 56 1/2 in. (143.51 cm) Center back length (Petticoat): 41 in. (104.14 cm)
Costume Council Fund (M.66.31a-b)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt. Fabric and Fashion: Twenty Years of Costume Council Gifts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974.
  • Donahue, Kenneth. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Handbook. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977.
  • Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt. Fabric and Fashion: Twenty Years of Costume Council Gifts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974.
  • Donahue, Kenneth. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Handbook. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977.
  • 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.
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