Brocade Ball Gown, ca. 1880-85
via Augusta Auctions
Woven Silk Evening Dress, ca. 1828
via The Met
Embroidered Ball Gown with Lace Trim, ca. 1906
Designed by Laferrière
Owned by Queen Maude of Norway
(see the sequined gown in the back of the bottom photo here)
Embroidered Ribbon Trimmed Ball Gown, ca. 1852
via FIDM
Glass Beaded Debutante Gown, ca. 1912
Worn by Hope D. MaCartney
Made by Helen Gjertsen for Dayton's Department Store
via MNHS
Ribbon Trimmed Challis Ball Gown, ca. 1850s (possibly altered in the late 1860s)
via Christies
Appliqued Tulle “Apotheosis” Ball Gown, 1955
Palazzo Pitti via Europeana Fashion
Metallic Embroidered Satin Ballgown, 1914
House of Worth
Owned by Queen Alexandra of Denmark
Queen Victoria’s Costume for the Stuart Ball, 1851
Designed by Eugène Louis Lami
The Stuart Ball was themed to the Court of Charles II. This gown is the most glamorous of all Queen Victoria’s surviving clothes. The rich brocade of the underskirt was woven in Benares. The lace of the berthe is a copy of seventeenth-century Venetian raised-point needle lace, probably made in Ireland and perhaps acquired at the Great Exhibition.
Also pictured are the original rendering of the gown, and a detail of a depiction of the Ball featuring the Queen and Prince Albert.
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Seed Beaded Ball Gown, 1888
Designed by Charles Frederick Worth
Worn by Clara Luz Romero Vargas, wife of the Mexican Ambassador to Germany, to attend the Coronation of Kaiser Wilhelm in 1888
via Live Auctioneers
