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 and light fabrics.

2012年6月14日 · Every one knows that a tea-gown is a hybrid between a wrapper and a ball dress. It has always a train and usually long flowing sleeves; is made of rather gorgeous materials and goes on easily, and its chief use is not for wear at the tea-table so much as for dinner alone with one’s family.

Whether one views tea gowns as a radical, liberating new way for women to dress or a garment as traditional as tea time, these gowns have somehow been a part of every artistic and social movement since they were introduced in the 1870s.

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 bustled feel of the formal garments of the day. A lady could allow herself creative expression by coordinating her dress color with the décor of her parlor.

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 picture hats were also perfectly suited for an outdoor tea.

2008年2月4日 · A natural cousin to the dressing gown and the peignoir, both of which existed prior to the Edwardian era, the tea gown developed in the 1870s, when both day and evening dresses were tightly fitted.

2016年3月6日 · The dressing gown – an incarnation of the house dress – was the forerunner to the tea gown which appeared quite generally by 1877. The tea gown was also a loose (appearing) gown for afternoon teas at home with or without guests.

2018年7月6日 · The tea gown was a loose-fitting garment that was essentially an elaborate dressing gown/wrapper and as such was meant to be worn at home in the company of immediate family and close friends and especially if one was dining or taking tea.

Worn for an informal afternoon entertaining friends, or dinner at home with family, the tea gown was a kind of halfway house between a wrapper and a ball gown. With long sleeves, train, and sumptuous fabrics, they were consummately elegant, yet comfortable too—often being worn with a loose-fitting corset or no corset at all.

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.