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The dress consisted of a stayed bodice with somewhat low-cut décolletage, sleeves which reached the elbow, skirt, and overskirt. [5] [4] The overskirt, in this case, was almost always of a contrasting color to the skirt, and was almost as long as the skirt itself. [5] The overskirt could be gathered and draped into a polonaise. [5] [4]
Two women wearing the robe à la polonaise, literally meaning the Polish dress Jean-Michel Moreau, Le Rendez-vous pour Marly, engraved by Carl Guttenberg c. 1777.. The robe à la polonaise or polonaise, literally meaning the Polish dress, is a woman's garment of the 18th century 1770s and 1780s or a similar revival style of the 1870s inspired by Polish national dress style, costume, [1 ...
Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly from the 1830s through the 1890s. The period saw many changes in fashion, including changes in styles, fashion technology and the methods of distribution.
A pet-raising simulation (sometimes called virtual pets or digital pets [1]) is a video game that focuses on the care, raising, breeding or exhibition of simulated animals. These games are software implementations of digital pets .
Robe à la polonaise, silk plain weave with supplementary warp- and weft-float patterning. France, c. 1775. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.70.85. By the mid-18th century, the mantua had evolved into a formal version principally worn for court dress. The draping of the overskirt became increasingly stylized, with the back panel of the train ...
Without petticoats, skirts of the 1850s would not have the volume they were known for. [1] In historical contexts (16th to mid-19th centuries), petticoat refers to any separate skirt worn with a gown , bedgown , bodice or jacket ; these petticoats are not, strictly speaking, underwear, as they were made to be seen.
She founded Marcella and The Forget Me Nots. [8] The band's first album came out in January 2010 as part of Twisted Cabaret , a part-audio, part-video compilation curated by French label Volvox. Marcella and The Forget Me Nots changed formation in 2010 to become an indie-art-punk-Weimar inspired band and released Born Beautiful in 2011.
One of Princess Marcella Borghese's first collections included brightly colored lipsticks and nail colors to match the vivid colors of her fashion designer friend, Emilio Pucci's knitwear. Her Montecatini Cosmetic line, named after her favorite spa (and an ancient town in Tuscany), used the purported healing properties of the Terme di ...