Evening dress House of Drécoll. Ca. 1890. Austrian. Silk & cotton. | THE MET
Evening dress House of Worth, Paris, circa 1890. Shaped satin piping, metallic tulle, embroidery sequins and gold bullion. | Les Arts Décoratifs
Evening jacket House of Worth. Charles Frederick Worth, ca. 1890. French. silk, jet & linen.
This is an excellent example of late 19th-century dress imitating men’s wear of the late 18th century. This Worth jacket eloquently imitates the silhouette and the ostentatious quality of court costume of the previous century. The extraordinary jet beadwork embroidery is stylized to represent the elaborate silk floss embroidery of the past to great effect. | THE MET