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Woman's Dress and Petticoat (Robe à la française)circa 1765

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18th-century steel-blue silk gown on a white mannequin, with gold metallic trim, tiered lace sleeve ruffles, wide hooped skirt, and elaborate upswept wig
18th-century silk robe à la française in pale blue-green, displayed on a mannequin with powdered wig and feather ornament; fabric features woven floral and dot brocade pattern in silver and gold, with elbow-length sleeves trimmed with dark bows and lace ruffles; full-length view from a three-quarter angle
Close-up detail of a textile garment showing silver metallic lace with a net ground and floral motifs layered over pale blue silk, with pleated blue fabric trim at right edge.
Close-up detail of textile with open-work silver metallic lace over teal silk ground, featuring a central raised floral motif worked in woven flat metal strips against loosely knotted silver wire mesh.
Silk brocade textile in pale blue with a woven floral bouquet in silver and gold metallic thread, featuring a large bloom and clusters of smaller flowers, set against an allover pattern of small white woven dots.
Title
Woman's Dress and Petticoat (Robe à la française)
Place Made
England
Date Made
circa 1765
Medium
Dress: Silk plain weave (faille) with silk and metallic-thread supplementary-weft patterning and metallic passementerie Petticoat: Silk plain weave (faille) with silk and metallic-thread supplementary-weft patterning and metallic lace
Dimensions
Center back length (Dress): 55 3/4 in. (141.61 cm) Center back length (Petticoat): 35 1/2 in. (90.17 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.2007.211.929a-d
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.
  • 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.
  • Edwards, Lydia. How to Read a Dress: a Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.