SO COOL!! You know what's funny, the 18th century dresses I have bouncing around in my head are more victorian/edwardian fancy dress than 100% period accurate so I totally got a kick out of this.
That is crazy! I've seen a fair number of fashion plates, but never a surviving fancy dress, much less such a magnificent one.
The one that gets me is Grace Kelly's cloth-of-gold 18th-century fancy dress from To Catch a Thief. It's a wild blend of 1950s-hoop skirt with 18th-century court hoops, way weirder than Augusta Auctions displayed this one. Absolutely crazy.
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Date: 2011-04-13 09:21 pm (UTC)You know what's funny, the 18th century dresses I have bouncing around in my head are more victorian/edwardian fancy dress than 100% period accurate so I totally got a kick out of this.
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Date: 2011-04-13 11:00 pm (UTC)The one that gets me is Grace Kelly's cloth-of-gold 18th-century fancy dress from To Catch a Thief. It's a wild blend of 1950s-hoop skirt with 18th-century court hoops, way weirder than Augusta Auctions displayed this one. Absolutely crazy.
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Date: 2011-04-14 01:03 am (UTC)