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Women's Clothing ➔ Day Dress
Identifier:
180639Description:
This lingerie day dress of batiste has lace trim on the collar, sleeve cuffs, bodice, and skirt hem. There are lace inserts on the bodice, waist, skirt, and sleeves. Pintucks can be seen on the upper bodice, the waist, the sleeves, and the skirt. The three-quarter length sleeves have lace trim over the shoulders and the flounce skirt is gathered at the back. There are celluloid buttons of the center back of the dress. Features that indicate this dress is from the early 1900s are the lingerie style, the lace inserts, the narrow waist, the monobosom, and the three-quarter length sleeves.This dress was worn by the donor's aunt to a recital when she was 18 years old.
The lingerie dress was a style of day dress that appeared at the end of the Victorian Era in the late 1890s and remained popular through the Edwardian Era until around 1915. It is typically a white dress made of lightweight cotton such as muslin or batiste that incorporates lace inserts, ruffles, and embroidery. This style of dress was popular among women of both lower and upper classes. Although white clothing used to symbolize wealth, the lingerie dress was worn by women of all social statuses because it was easy to create thanks to sewing machines, readily available patterns, and machine-constructed laces. The color white was used because of its ease to wash and also because this style of dress was created to mimic women’s undergarments, using the same color, fabrics, and decor. It was commonly worn for afternoon functions during warmer weather and was also referred to as a tea dress or a lingerie frock.
