Dress
Design House House of Drecoll French
Designer Mme. Marguerite de Wagner
Not on view
This sumptuous dress, in which an Edwardian silhouette emerges from an S-curve, is one of our best examples of eighteenth-century revival and was acquired for its first showing in our fall 1998 exhibition "The Ceaseless Century." Its robe à la polonaise silhouette, open robe format with petticoat revealed at center front, deep décolletage, ruching with pinked edges, and laces are conspicuous eighteenth-century revival themes. The dress is unabashedly modern yet also harks back "ceaselessly into the past," as the early modern inexorably does.
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