Artistic dress movement

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Lot 49 - A rare Liberty & Co Aesthetic movement dress, - Estimate 400-600 GBP

The tea gown was the Victorian equivalent of the Slanket: a loose, comfortable garment worn at home, for informal afternoon gatherings of intimate friends around

Vertical knife pleated yoke & sleeve of patterned changeable silk w/ triangle & dot motif, standing collar, dusty rose wool twill dress & lower sleeves, silk satin ribbon draped from bow at CB into SSs & continuing to CF, full slightly trained skirt w/ triple inverted box pleat at CB & hem w/ box pleated self-ruffle manipulated w/ added flat silk satin bows, lined in glazed cotton

This gown would have been worn as a 'tea gown', as an informal 'at home' dress for the late afternoon, or even as a simple dinner dress. In 1884 Liberty's had opened a dress department under the guidance of the designer E. W. Godwin. He was a member of the Aesthetic Movement, which favoured 'artistic' dress for women based on classical, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite and Renaissance clothing. The gown is close to Walter Crane's designs for Aesthetic dress in Aglaeia, the journal of the Healthy and…

Pavonia

A wonderfully romantic watered silk house dress from 1888. It shows heavy influence from the Aesthetic Movement and I think it would look right at home in a Pre-Raphaelite painting. It was made by L....