Victorian Dresses worth a fortune
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
February 19, 2017 3:32am CST
I think the title speaks for itself.
Dresses in Victorian times, worn by royalty in various countries.
My favorite is the fourth dress, not that you'd ever catch me in a dress at all!
Charles Frederick Worth was most likely the designer of all these dresses while Fraz Xaver Winterhalter was the painter of these portraits.
Very pretty dresses.
While Charles Frederick Worth made dresses for Royalty, Franz Xaver Winterhalter painted them. It was a partnership that powered Europe's elite.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
19 Feb 17
I imagine it took quite a bit of time to complete. I am not sure what tools they would have had to aid them in making the dresses. I don't know for sure, but I want to say the first sewing machine wasn't invented until the turn of the century.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Feb 17
@Kandae11 Itchy intricacies? haha, I bet you couldn't say that then times fast!
Yes so many beautiful beautiful dresses but they had to take hours upon hours to get just right!
@Kandae11 (57233)
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20 Feb 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum Just consider the type of clothing worn by royalty in the centuries preceding the 19th century.
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
19 Feb 17
Those are some very elaborate gowns. The basque waist was very much in evidence.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
19 Feb 17
I saw an episode that Lucy Worsley (A BBC document presenter as well as I believe a curator of a castle? My mind escapes me this morning) did where she went through the stages of putting on a dress. Not of this era, but of the Tudor Era. It was quite a process!
Aren't you glad we can simply put on a nice skirt and matching blouse? Perhaps pantyhose?
@allen0187 (59648)
• Philippines
19 Feb 17
I doubt if any one in her right mind would war those Victorian dresses. Unless of course they get to keep the dresses after wearing it, then, yeah, women will be lining up to wear those dresses.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
19 Feb 17
I wouldn't be lining up to wear them, but I'd be lining up to look at all the other woman crazy enough to wear them!
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@garymarsh6 (23979)
• United Kingdom
19 Feb 17
Not very practical but they do look very elegant. A couple of years ago for the Queens diamond Wedding anniversary, they had all the clothes and jewellery the Royal family had on display at Buckingham Palace. The dress the Queen wore was phenomenal. The seamstresses worked day and night on it. They were very talented indeed. I have met a couple of seamstresses who had fascinating stories to tell about their work. They loved it for starters and talked about it with a passion.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
19 Feb 17
I think I might have seen a picture of the dress she wore. I might be thinking of another person or even dress entirely, but I want to say that Tudor Roses were part of the theme of the dress? Perhaps I'm thinking of her original wedding gown though.
On a more medical side of things, I am sure the seamstresses work with a "labor of love" mindset, but their poor fingers and hands must get arthritic very early in life.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
19 Feb 17
@garymarsh6 Yes, agreed but surely there are things that aid them in that regard now. There are lamps that put out very bright light and have a magnifying surface in the middle of it which would be very helpful.
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@garymarsh6 (23979)
• United Kingdom
19 Feb 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum Not to mention their poor eyesight!
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
19 Feb 17
I would imagine those vintage dresses being fragile and carefully taken care of.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
19 Feb 17
I doubt they'd see the light of day very much. I imagine some are in some sort of museum somewhere. I know that there are clothes surviving the years around the tudor reign. Well, by clothes I mean the very first form of undergarments for ladies.
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