1910s fashion women evening gowns

Ball Gown Jacques Doucet, 1898-1900 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A 1912/1913 evening gown I made to wear to a Titanic commemoration dinner in early April. The guests were requested to wear period black tie dinner attire, so I designed this gown around the style of the era. It's one of the few pieces I've made that I can say I'm 100% happy with how it turned out! Read more about this project on my blog.

That little bit of blue on this cream colored dress completes the look. Evening dress, c. 1915, from the Hallwyl Costume Collection.

Evening gown 1910-14

Evening gown, Worth, 1905. Bright floor-length dress in silk taffeta, tone on tone embroidered with rose pattern. The narrow, high waist is accented by an incorporated corset belt. Deep neckline bordered with draped tulle and accented with applied loop. Three-quarter-length sleeves are also made of draped and shirred tulle. Photo: Léopold-Émile Reutlinger. State Museum of Berlin

The dress dates back to c. 1912 and was donated by the Finch family. Edward Cornell Kip Finch (1911-1988) married Ruth Earle Woodward (1916-2004) in 1951, after which the two lived in New Canaan. The dress belonged to one of their mothers, Persis Davis Woodward or Lolita Mollman Finch. The interior label of the dress […]

Evening dress by Jeanne Paquin. From the French periodical Les Modes, 1909 💛

Costume I designed and constructed. Unfortunately it's a scan, so the quality is not that good.