Evening dress
Worn by Queen Alexandra the year following Queen Victoria’s death, this evening gown expresses the opulence of court dress in tones of half-mourning. This gown demonstrates a dramatic shift from the sober mourning attire of Queen Victoria, whose wardrobe in her later years responded little to changes in fashion. This contrast reflects differences in individual sensibilities, along with a more broadly shifting sense of propriety regarding mourning fashions at the turn of the twentieth century, which saw a loosening of the rigid prescriptions of earlier decades.
Artwork Details
- Title: Evening dress
- Date: 1902
- Culture: French
- Medium: silk, gelatin
- Credit Line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937
- Object Number: C.I.37.44.2a, b
- Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute
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