The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.
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Then again I have been wanting to do a theme about hobble skirts?
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Robe à l’Anglaise
c.1785-87
Met
This dress is on my summer costume list
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Circa 1873
This reminds me of the Janet Arnold pattern!
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Photo reblogged from American Duchess
The Met:
Jacket, late 18th century
Silk
French
What a fascinating pierrot-thing. It’s rather weird, isn’t it? And the lining is amazing!
Crazy beautiful! Check out the inside:
It’s like a scrapbook of fabrics!
The stripes match up so beautifully in the back! Very impressive!
If you have ever tried to match patterns up you can appreciate the labour and love that went into this. The pattern matching is visually magnificent!
Look at those beautiful buttons and such dainty pink stitching!
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Another dress belonging to the Empress.
![About 1865
“Dress in two parts with separate belt. Ribbed silk widely striped pink and white; short bodice with low-cut sloping neck; full skirt, slight train in back, trimmed with panels of white ribbed silk, points of white satin and white silk lace, separate folded white satin belt with ribbed white silk lappets and pink satin.”
PROVENANCE
Purchased in Paris between 1858 - 1861 by the parents of Fanny Crowninshield, (Mrs. John Quincy Adams II), (1839 - 1911), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Robert Homans, Boston; 1946, gift of Mrs. Homans to MFA [see note 2]. (Accession date: February 14, 1946)
MFA](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzccuy9V2w1qegasto1_500.jpg)
