Fashion History

A place for historical garments, past patterns, illustrations, demonstrations, perukes, petticoats, hoops, codpieces, houppelandes, hennins, restorations and recreations from long ago. Fashion historians, costumers and enthusiasts are welcome to celebrate some good-old-fashioned fashion.

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Schiaparelli Evening Jacket, 1938 Embroidery by Maison Lesage, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Posted 3rd May 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

Dinner dress made of black silk velvet with black Chantilly lace embroidered with jet beads and sequins, having pale pink organdy bodice lining with pink cotton sleeve lining, 1890s-1900s ✨

Posted 2nd May 2026u/KatyaRomici00

Evening dress by Cristobal Balenciaga 1951 at Met Museum

Posted 2nd May 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

Arirang Dress by Nora Noh in 1958. Thedress worn by third Miss Korea Oh Hyun-ju during the 1959 Miss Universe beauty pageant. National Registered Cultural Heritage

Posted 2nd May 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

Evening dress, House of Balmain by Pierre Balmain, fall/winter 1957–58, French, silk

Posted 1st May 2026u/Saint-Veronicas-Veil

Horseheads Historical Museum in Horseheads , New York.1879 wedding dress.

Posted 2nd May 2026u/CryptographerKey2847

Young ladies Andrea Margrethe Oline Caroline Møller (left) and Bertha Agnes Elisabeth Møller posing in their best dresses, Norway, July of 1894. Glass negative

Posted 1st May 2026u/Electrical-Aspect-13

Late Victorian or Edwardian Era Dress?

Posted 1st May 2026u/beergypsy916

Man's banyan, pink ribbed silk with brocaded design in silver frise thread, Germany, 1748-1760 [3565 x 4319]

Posted 1st May 2026u/MLB_Artist

Evening coat by House of Worth, 1901. The MET

Posted 1st May 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

Child's dress made of damask figured dull orange silk, 1830-1835. Old Sturbridge Village

Posted 1st May 2026u/KatyaRomici00

Female indigenous Mexican(New Spain) dress in the 18th century

Posted 1st May 2026u/Dependent-Pitch7343

Wedding guests and one bride's maid posing before the wedding. Circa 1960s. Kodachrome shot.

Posted 1st May 2026u/Electrical-Aspect-13

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ekonda) - Hat (Botolo) (20th Century)

Posted 1st May 2026u/trifletruffles

Silver Tissue Dress believed to have been worn by Lady Theophila Harris at the court of Charles I in 1660. Handmade of fine silk woven with silver thread

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/Haunting_Homework381

Robe à l'anglaise made of silk, 1785-1795. Palais Galliera

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/KatyaRomici00

How were they styled? Why were the so popular? Does anyone know?

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/Only_Humor4549

Woman's riding habit, brown wool gabardine riding habit with jacket and matching jodhpurs, 1920

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/Saint-Veronicas-Veil

Nigeria (Hausa) - Man's Robe (1900-1925)

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/trifletruffles

A whitework embroidered muslin evening gown with long trained hem, French, 1800-04

Posted 29th Apr 2026u/Saint-Veronicas-Veil

The difference in clothing between Christians and Muslims in Spain in the book of games of King Alfonso X the Wise

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/cliptemnestra

Balintawak Dress Ensemble - Philippines, 1930s

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

McCall's Patterns 1968 Models Karin Mossberg & Ronnie Carol.

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/Pristine_Witness3908

Insect hat🪲: Pagan collection designed by Elsa Schiaparelli, 1938, V&A Museum

Posted 29th Apr 2026u/Arizona-Trash-Bag

Uzbekistan - Chapan (Man's Leather Robe) (19th Century)

Posted 29th Apr 2026u/trifletruffles

Ball Gown c. 1900-1903 French The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted 29th Apr 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

From the UK 1965 Spring and summer dresses for teens and young twentysomethings. From my Atlas Store catalogue from Manchester.

Posted 29th Apr 2026u/Pristine_Witness3908

Mid-19th century sheer summer kimono. The Khalili Collection

Posted 29th Apr 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

India (Mughal Empire) - Peshwaz (Woman's Court Dress) (Late 18th Century)

Posted 28th Apr 2026u/trifletruffles

Maker unknown (American). Girl's dress, ca. 1867-1868. Ivory cotton/wool plain weave, red silk/cotton velvet ribbon, cotton lace

Posted 28th Apr 2026u/Saint-Veronicas-Veil

Costume designed by Yves Saint-Laurent, made of silk satin, decorated with black beads, edged with ostrich feathers, 1972. Musée Yves Saint-Laurent, Paris

Posted 28th Apr 2026u/KatyaRomici00

Day dress and shawl, 1865. National Gallery of Victoria

Posted 28th Apr 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

Afternoon dress from 1903 made of salmon pink dotted cotton voile, cream lace, and steel buttons.

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/Sy3Zy3Gy3

Woman's Dress (Robe à la française and Petticoat), France or England, Silk plain weave (faille) with silk and metallic-thread supplementary-weft patterning and metallic-thread lace, 1760-1765

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/Saint-Veronicas-Veil

"Rebel Youth" Elvis-belts [question: read body]

Posted 28th Apr 2026u/Tab714

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon dress from her 1923 Wedding to then then Duke of York.

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/CryptographerKey2847

Day dress of challis printed with flowers, 1837-1840. V&A Museum

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/KatyaRomici00

Morocco (Ida Ou Nadif) - Jewelry (Late 19th or Early 20th Century)

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/trifletruffles

Tunic and Dress c. 1926 by Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo RISD Museum

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/Beginning-Passion676

The wedding dress of a bride named Svea Beata Myhrman, worn 19 August 1854

Posted 26th Apr 2026u/Haunting_Homework381

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