Lady Under Glass

More from the Hobart Historical Society museum. Here we have a dress that looks to date to (rough guess) the 1890s. I do not know for certain that it is authentic, or who it belonged to.


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It's a bit jarring to see that dress on that modern mannequin, because in the 1890s no respectable woman would have appeared in public wearing that shade of lipstick, or any lipstick at all. And I really don't think the exhibit is intended to portray a fallen woman!

The glass obscures the details of the dress — unfortunately, because what I can see of it is quite beautiful.



Looks like eggplant-colored velvet, trimmed with jet-spangled black lace.