Court presentation ensemble
The robe de style silhouette, with its structural panniers augmenting the sides, is rendered by the Boué Soeurs as a light, flickering system of sheer, partially see-through layers rather than the hard carapace of eighteenth-century dresses. Whereas petticoats and inner structures of eighteenth-century clothing were solid and more or less rigid, the Boué Soeurs dress, despite the resemblance in silhouette, reveals its twentieth-century disposition in its lingerie-like revealing lightness, like the merest trellis for an arbor of silk flowers. A penchant for sweet, three-dimensional buds is, of course, shared by the rococo and the Boué Soeurs
Artwork Details
- Title: Court presentation ensemble
- Design House: Boué Soeurs (French, 1897–1957)
- Designer: Sylvie Boué de Montegut (French, 1872–1953)
- Designer: Jeanne d'Etreillis (French, 1876–1957)
- Date: 1928
- Culture: French
- Medium: (a, c, d) silk, metallic threads; (b) silk; (e) feathers, plastic (cellulose nitrate)
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. George Henry O'Neil, 1968
- Object Number: C.I.68.48a–e
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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