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19th-century Aesthetic dress design. Tea gown, late 1890s. According to The John Bright Collection, this style is based on medieval or classical dress, loose in appearance, made from fine soft fabrics in subtle colors, and embroidered in distinctive stylized designs.

Extravagant vintage walking suit, Germany, 1886. Skirt of beautiful design with large bow on the back, black petticoat, embellished bodice, gloves, and hat. The clothes are made from silk. The bodice has a delicate lace collar and front.

Vintage fan-pleated dress. American cotton morning gown, 1840. From The Met Museum

French women's cotton plain-weave spencer jacket circa 1815 from the LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art).

Portrait of countess Julie von Woyna from 1832 by Austrian painter Friedrich von Amerling. Her dress features huge and sheer gigot sleeves, also called leg-of-mutton sleeves.

Vintage female walking suit, 1860-1865. Wide skirt with crinoline, tight-fitting jacket, belt, gloves, and straw bonnet. This ensemble is so charming!

Regency-style gowns from early 1800s.
On the left, is a pretty cotton & silk dress from 1810. This style persisted until the 1820s, when the waist slowly lowered and the skirts became more bell-shaped.
On the right, you can see an ivory silk damask gown from about 1821. The Empire waistline was already beginning to drop.
These dresses are from the Kent State University Museum in Ohio.

Male fashionable early-19th-century clothing. This is a naval double-breasted wool tailcoat that dates about 1815.

The double-breasted tailcoat looks really elegant. Can imagine my hubby in it lol!

Elvira wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 2:58 pm The double-breasted tailcoat looks really elegant. Can imagine my hubby in it lol!

Absolutely! Me too