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Clothing and Accessories
Women's Clothing ➔ Ensemble
Identifier:
127567Description:
This ensemble consists of a jacket and day dress. The jacket is made of white cotton and the bodice is almost made entirely of lace. There are covered buttons around the collar and lace inserts can be seen on the sleeves and hem. The lingerie day dress is made of cotton and has a standing collar made of lace. The dress has lace inserts throughout and the sleeves and long and fitted. Features that indicate this ensemble is from the early 1900s are the lingerie style, the narrow waist, and the lace inserts.The lingerie dress was a style of day dress that appeared at the end of the Victorian Era in the late 1890s and remained popular through the Edwardian Era until around 1915. It is typically a white dress made of lightweight cotton such as muslin or batiste that incorporates lace inserts, ruffles, and embroidery. This style of dress was popular among women of both lower and upper classes. Although white clothing used to symbolize wealth, the lingerie dress was worn by women of all social statuses because it was easy to create thanks to sewing machines, readily available patterns, and machine-constructed laces. The color white was used because of its ease to wash and also because this style of dress was created to mimic women’s undergarments, using the same color, fabrics, and decor. It was commonly worn for afternoon functions during warmer weather and was also referred to as a tea dress or a lingerie frock.
