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Caraco and quilted petticoat, 1770-90
From the Mode Museum via Wikimedia Commons
Pastel green 18th Century gown with a stomacher by L'Armoirede Mathilde, modeled by Bérénice
• Mantua.
Date: ca. 1732 (weaving), 1735-1740 (sewing), 1870-1910 (altered)
Place of origin: Spitalfields (weaving); Great Britain (sewing)
Catherine the Great of Russia
1. Coronation gown
Costumes from Catherine the Great (2019)
Costumes from Catherine the Great (2019)
“My neck and my bosom is white and well shaped. My figure is quite good and fairly well proportioned and my stature straight (…). My hands are awful as I didn’t want to wear gloves as a child, but they are small and fairly well shaped. My legs are straight and, as my feet, nicely shaped, yes I can claim it’s the best part of me” (from the diary of Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta, quoted in the book “Underkläder: en kulturhistoria” from 2008)
Portrait: Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta of Holstein-Gottorp, later Queen of Sweden and Norway, painted in 1775 by Alexander Roslin. Nationalmuseum Stockholm ( X ).
Attire: The portrait was painted one year after her wedding to prince Charles in July 1774, and it’s said to depict her in her wedding dress. How do we know? Because that very same wedding dress has survived and can today be seen in the collection of Livrustkammaren in Stockholm.
Robe a l’Anglaise, late 1770s-early 1780s.
Dress (robe à la française) 1770s
Dress (robe à la française) c. 1760
Dress (robe à l'anglaise) c. 1785
18th century Mantua decorated with 10lb worth of silver thread.
Mantua, c. 1740-1749
from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Round Gown, c. 1790-1795
from The Victoria and Albert Museum
Robe à l'Anglaise, c. 1775-1790
from the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris
Jacket, c. 1785-1795
from the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris
Robe à l'Anglaise, c. 1780
from The Kyoto Costume Institute
Jacket, c. 1710-1730
from the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris