1820s dress

Fashion Plate, ‘Dinner Dress’ for ‘The Repository of Arts’, Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, April 1, 1825, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

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Silk Sarsnet Dress (1818-1822) elaborate hem trims on widening skirts are in style. Sleeve puffs are popular—usually in a “Renaissance” style with slashed effects and contrasting fabric puffs. The neoclassical mode and its simplicity have been eclipsed in favor of a variety of historic and ethnographic influences, and increasing amounts of decoration.

Dinner dress; 1824–26; British; cotton, silk, wool; Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 2015; (2015.98a, b); #dresses

Fashion Plate, ‘Ball Dress’ for ‘The Repository of Arts’, Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, May 1, 1826, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

Evening dress, 1810′s From the DAR Museum

So, last week I made a silly mistake and published two Rate the Dresses. I noticed it a few hours later and withdrew the one I hadn’t meant to publish. So most of you only saw the 1780s pastel polonaised froof that I left up (and most of didn’t particularly care for it and rated it a not-very inspiring 5.2 out of 10). But some of you did get a sneak-peek at this week’s Rate the Dress, so have had all week to think about whether you like it or not.. 1840s dresses can be a bit, well, plain and…

Ackermann's Repository was a popular British publication of the Regency period and its monthly issues were in distribution from January 1809 till its final issue on December 1828. Fortunately for us, Ackermann's Repository was published by a printing house that specialized in producing bound volumes intended for reference and private libraries. Had this just been a fashion magazine, I believe many of the amazing plates would have vanished over time; however since this publication was a…

Robe with train, possibly for a form of court dress, probably altered and possibly for fancy dress, pink silk, fur trimmed and embroidered wth silver strip, British, 1820-1830