A tea gown or tea-gown is a woman's dress for informal entertaining at home. These dresses, which became popular around the mid-19th century, are characterized by unstructured lines …

The velvet red tea gown (left), which dates to the earlier half of the 1890s, shows long, slim sleeves and the slight puff of fabric high on the shoulders serves as a predecessor to late …

The vintage tea gown’s heyday was centered in the Edwardian era (1900-1920), when white lace dresses posed beautifully against a luscious green garden. The enormous flower-covered …

2020年1月13日 · This late 19th-century embroidered tea gown combines design features of several artistic movements of the time, including historicism, Japonisme, and Art Nouveau.

Tea gowns were loose dresses, usually made without a waist seam, and worn without corsets (or with loosened corsets). They were closely related to wrappers and kimonos, and shared some …

2016年8月9日 · What is a tea gown? Early tea gowns were rather unfitted with pleating in the-the front; resembling a Regency-era gown. The back was a loosely draped train, giving it the …

2012年6月14日 · The lines between a wrapper and a tea gown could be quite blurry: there are patterns from the 1890s for ‘a wrapper or a tea gown’ – the distinction between the two would …

2018年7月6日 · During the 1880s and 1890s, tea gowns evolved as an alternative form of day wear. Influenced in part by a growing interest in Japonisme and the desire for an alternative to …

2022年1月5日 · In the 1890s, both tea dresses and wrappers were ways to illustrate 18th century, medieval, or Asian influences on a contemporary garment, but with modern silhouettes and …

2016年3月6日 · By the time we get into the early 1890s the tea gown develops into brighter colors and richer materials to evolve back to the “house dress.” The house dress now is worn with a …