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Woman's Dress (Round Gown)textile 1785–1790; dress circa 1795

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Empire-silhouette gown in cream silk with diagonal gold-brown striping and an embroidered hem border of wreaths and figures, displayed on a white mannequin with an elaborate feathered headpiece
Museum display of an early 19th-century Empire-style gown on a white mannequin, shown in profile. Cream silk fabric with diagonal zigzag woven pattern, high waistline, short sleeves, and a hem bordered with colorful embroidered floral garlands and scalloped lace trim. Mannequin wears a white ruffled turban with orange and brown feather plumes.
Detail of a cream silk net skirt hem, embroidered with autumn leaves in orange, red, yellow, and brown, with gold sequin trim along scalloped edges and lattice-patterned appliqué panels.
Detail of a cream textile with densely embroidered floral decoration, featuring autumn leaves in red, orange, and brown along the hem, yellow flowering branches above, and a scalloped border trimmed with gold sequins and beadwork.
Close-up of silk embroidery on cream fabric, depicting autumn leaves in brown, red, gold, and green with satin-stitch detailing; bordered by lace trim, gold sequins, and beadwork.
Close-up of embroidered textile with dense surface decoration: a vertical border of white feather-stitch fan shapes and silver sequins flanks a central column of diamond motifs in gold thread and sequins on net ground, with polychrome silk embroidered florals in rust, green, and red at lower right.
Close-up detail of embroidered textile with silk thread florals in red, peach, and brown, green stem accents worked in seed beads, and a border of fan-shaped white stitching edged with small metal sequins over a honeycomb mesh ground.
Detail of draped cream silk textile with a woven geometric star pattern, embellished with diagonal lines of gold sequins and zigzag stitching in muted purple-gray thread.
Close-up detail of heavily embroidered textile with silk thread, sequins, and beadwork; large peach and brown flower with black and green beaded center at right, geometric diamond and fringe patterns in taupe and gold at left, green and yellow foliage below, on a cream net ground.
Close-up detail of heavily embroidered textile in cream and dusty rose, featuring a central vertical band of gold-outlined diamond shapes surrounded by radiating white thread fringe and rows of gold and silver sequins, with orange silk embroidery visible at lower right edge.
Title
Woman's Dress (Round Gown)
Place Made
Europe
Date Made
textile 1785–1790; dress circa 1795
Medium
Silk plain weave with weft-float patterning, silk and metallic-thread embroidery, sequins, silk and linen net, silk satin, and silk plain-weave (faille) trim
Dimensions
Center back length: 56 in. (142.24 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.2007.211.933
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.
  • Edwards, Lydia. How to Read a Dress: a Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.