1830s dress

Evening dress, 1830′s From the Turun museokeskus

Dress Date: ca. 1830 Culture: British Medium: silk Accession Number: 1971.47.1a, b

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It is easy to deride #1830s sleeves for their ridiculous proportions but at play here is a desire of #Romanticism to look to past extravagances of the #17thcentury. This early 1830s lush green dress is an example of the demi-gigot, the fullness ending at the elbow @museumatFIT

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