The Dapper Bonnet

Women’s dress from 1838. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Accession Number: 1936-23-2

Corset ca. 1825-1835 via The Victoria & Albert Museum

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Corset 1830s

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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This girl’s dress is a very good example of the change in style that began in 1837, the year that Queen Victoria became queen. The exaggerated gigot sleeve collapsed in that year, and the sleeve became tight on the upper arm, gradually losing its fullness over the next several years. This dress shows that transition well and is exemplary of dresses worn by a young teenage girl of the highest style of the period. 

Royal Lady’s Magazine, Court and Ball Dress, April 1831. 

Holy Cats!  This is magnificent.  Look at that glorious overskirt!  Gold and purple are always so stunning together!  And her headdress!  All the feathers!  Exclamation point!

(And I guess that pink gown is pretty great, too.)

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Dress

1836-1837

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Morning Dress

1827-1830

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Petit Courrier des Dames, 1834.

A wonderful collection of spring bonnets! Aren’t those colors just delicious?

Ladies Pocket Magazine, London Evening Dress, 1838.

OK, it is sorta hard to admit this, but I am totally loving THIS 1830s dress. Don’t rub it in.

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Day dress ca. 1830

From the Germanic National Museum

Nice fabric. 

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Porträt einer Frau by Eduard Magnus, 1839, the State Hermitage Museum

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Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Pyotor Vasilievich Basin, 1837-38 Russia

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Carolina Ferdinanda Louisa of Sicily

ca. 1820-37

François Pascal Simon

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