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Evening Dress of the 1890s
As seen in Harper’s Bazar
Introduction
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Elaborately trimmed corsages and very simple skirts are
the vogue of the season. This excellent arrangement finds
great favor because it can be made becoming to both slight
and large figures, and also affords many ways of renewing the
dresses of last season.
Harper’s Bazar, April 14, 1894
Rich and glowing colors are effective at the sea-shore,
and will be found this season in many costumes carried to
Newport—most beautiful of summer cities. Evening dresses for
Summer dinners and dances are of the embroidered muslins now
having such favor, and also of moire and chiffon. White and
pink are the colors most used, sometimes alone, more often
together. Yellow frocks are also made with chiffon and
embroidery on moire, in odd brocades in small designs, and on
taffeta or satin.
Harper’s Bazar, June 30, 1894
Ladies' Evening Dress of the 1890s:
as seen in Harper’s Bazar contains illustrations from issues
of Harper’s Bazar from the mid-1890s. The styles popular in the
mid-1890s, with very large puffed sleeves, have been adopted by
the Vintage Dance community as the preferred gown style for this
era of dance. I have compiled a group of illustrations of evening
and dinner gowns as well as costume accessories such as fans and
shoes to help complete your vintage outfit.
Evening gowns of this period came in a wide variety of styles,
both with and without puffed sleeves, in gossamer silks and heavy
rich brocades or velvets, and with or without trains. The
extravagantly puffed sleeve makes for a very distinctive gown
that is easily recognizable as being from the 1890s (in the 1999
movie version of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, set in
the mid-1890s, there’s not a puffed sleeve in sight!). There was
also a great interest in historical styles, such as those of the
Renaissance; many of the gowns seen in this volume have a
decidedly historical flair: there are also many gowns that claim
to have historical inspiration, but appear to be entirely of the
1890s.
In addition to evening gowns, a few dinner and reception gowns
have been included; while not evening dresses per se, they can be
made quite suitable for wear at a ball with slight modifications
such as lowering a high neckline or shortening a long sleeve.
Gowns with trains are also represented; although elegant, they
are not as well suited to a full evening of dancing. We have
included the original descriptions that accompanied the
illustrations, as well as a few reduced-scale pattern diagrams
for evening bodices that were originally published as a
supplement to the magazine.
8 ½" by 11" high quality photocopy, with stapled binding
107 pages
over 100 black and white illustrations
first published 1999
revised and expanded edition published February 2000.
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