Lena

Evening dress with presentation train, United Kingdom, ca. 1880s. Plain and brocaded pink silk faille. Photo: Anne Bissonnette. Univ. of Alberta

In 2015 I had less than a week to make a gown for the Saturday night gala, so it had to be something simple, fast and straight forward. I decided to make a Victorian court presentation gown after one of Worth's gowns. Truly Victorian had just come up with a perfect skirt pattern that I was happy to use to save time on guess work. I only lengthened the train a little. The bodice pattern is my own. It's made of duchess silk satin. The skirt and train are faced and the bodice lined with glazed…

Portrait de Mademoiselle X, Marquise Anforti

Ball Gown Jacques Doucet, 1898-1900 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Just another Victorian lady. The dress she wears is based on a model created by Worth in 1885. HB Staedtler pencil Caran d'Ache coloured pencils on smoo... Blue Ball Gown (1885)

House of Worth | Ball gown | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art