http://www.kci.or.jp/cgi-bin/collection/collection.cgi?lang=e&path=1770/05-007716_a
Sadly the photo does it so little justice, you need the Taschen book to really appreciate how stunning the trimming actually is.
Noooooo!!!!
I just realised something: http://www.kci.or.jp/exhibitions/index_e.html Japonism in Fashion, New Zealand Jul. -Oct. 2003, at the Museum of New Zealand, Te papa Tongarewa, Wellington Dec. 2003-Mar. 2004, at the Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christchurch.
I know I wanted to go and now I really wish I had. I think “my” worth gown would have been in it π Well Worth’s copy of his own gown but in pale pink rather than pale yellow and with c1893 huge sleeves π But the embroidery was the same.
pout.
oooh: http://www.wacoal.jp/c/kci/2009/02/dresstudyvol552009.html
DRESSTUDY Vol. 55 (Spring 2009)γ38p. 500 yen +S&H fee: 200yenγ»
CONTENTS LECTURE: Luxury in the Western Culture by Koichi KABAYAMA
Bourgeois Luxury in Seventeenth-Century Germany: A Costume Collection in the Hessisches Landesmusum Darmstadt by.Johannes PIETSCH π