Silhouettes in the 1830s featured full and ample volumes above and below a particularly slim waist. Leg-of-mutton sleeves, billowing at the shoulder and upper arm and tapering to a fitted wrist, bell-shaped skirts and wasp waists: romantic fashions portrayed women as graceful and airy butterflies or sylphs. The springtime charm of the soft, draped floral print fabrics worn over the corset, once again de rigueur, appropriately masked the structures that gave the forms their volume.
- Dates: Circa 1830
- Mode d'acquisition : Given by the heirs of Madame Georges Marindaz
- Matériaux et techniques : Dress: cotton plain weave, mother-of-pearl, metal. Canezou: cotton plain weave with openwork embroidery, machine-made cotton tulle.
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