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A housewife in 1941 wearing a printed cotton house dress. Nelly Don house dress, May 1922. A house dress is a type of simple dress worn informally at home for household chores or for quick errands. [1] The term originated in the late nineteenth century to describe at-home garments designed for maximum practicality and usually made from washable ...
Holokū was the original name for the Mother Hubbard dress introduced by Protestant missionaries to Hawaii in the 1820s. [5] [6] In contrast to the muumuu, the holokū featured long sleeves and a floor-length unfitted dress falling from a high-necked yoke which was worn by the aliʻi as well as the common people.
Dressing gowns are typically worn around the house. They may be worn for warmth, over nightwear when not in bed, or as a form of lingerie. A dressing gown may be worn over nightwear or other clothing, or with nothing underneath. When guests or other visitors enter the household while the host(s) are partially dressed or undressed, a dressing ...
A bodycon dress is a tight figure-hugging dress, often made from stretchy material. [73] The name derives from "body confidence" [ 74 ] or, originally, "body conscious", transformed into Japanese in the 1980s as "bodikon".
Day dress, American 1820. A Mother Hubbard dress is a long, wide, loose-fitting gown with long sleeves and a high neck. It is intended to cover as much skin as possible. It was devised in Victorian western societies to do housework in.
Bungalow aprons fell roughly between nightgowns or house coats and house-dresses; they were appropriate for morning in-home wear but would not have been worn outside of the house, as opposed to a true morning or house-dress, which might have been worn to the grocery store or in other informal situations.
The House of Eliott is a British television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 31 August 1991 and 6 March 1994. The series starred Stella Gonet as Beatrice Eliott and Louise Lombard as Evangeline Eliott, two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business and eventually their own haute couture fashion house, Aden Gillett as photographer and film maker ...
Two people wearing bathrobes. A bathrobe, also known as a housecoat or a dressing gown, is a loose-fitting outer garment (a robe) worn by people, often after washing the body or around a pool.