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Collections

Pair of Woman's Shoes1830-1840

Not on view
Museum display of an early 19th-century women's ensemble: white muslin dress with puffed sleeves, lavender sash and ribbons, wide-brimmed bonnet, and embroidered purple reticule, on a white mannequin
Museum display photograph of two white mannequins wearing early 19th-century women's dress. Left figure wears a beige corset with puff sleeves over a white petticoat skirt and a white ruffled cap. Right figure wears a white muslin dress with large puff sleeves, a purple sash tied at the waist, a wide-brimmed straw bonnet with purple ribbon, and holds a small embroidered purple drawstring bag.
Title
Pair of Woman's Shoes
Place Made
France
Date Made
1830-1840
Medium
Silk satin and leather
Dimensions
Length: 10 1/4 in. (26.04 cm) 2 × 2 5/8 in. (5.08 × 6.67 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number
M.2007.211.304a-b
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.
  • Örmen, Catherine. L'Art de la Mode. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2015.