#fancy dress
Fancy dress costume of Frederick IV of Denmark, early 18th century
From the Royal Danish Collection
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The Surrealist Ball of 1972, hosted by Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and her husband Guy at the Chateau de Ferrières.
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FromFancy Dresses Described, or, what to wear at fancy balls,1880. Ask a librarian to see anything in our special collections.
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FromFancy Dresses Described, or, what to wear at fancy balls,1880. Ask a librarian to see anything in our special collections.
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FromFancy Dresses Described, or, what to wear at fancy balls,1880. Ask a librarian to see anything in our special collections.
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my sisters hen do! as you can tell i was amy winehouse for the night ;) had such a good weekend, cant wait for the wedding next month!
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Deadpool costume! I wore this for our Halloween gig. There are a few more pictures on the band page, if anyone’s interested:
https://www.facebook.com/OnlyTomorrowUK
It was lots of fun, though I did have to focus on not accidentally hitting our rhythm guitarist or bassist with the swords strapped to my back….
And it did leave me with a weird craving for hot sauce…
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Costumes worn by Prince Carl (later king Haakon of Norway), princess Maud (later queen Maud of Norway) and princess Victoria, photographed by Lafayette on July 2, 1897, and two of the attires worn. The Lafayette photo comes from the Royal Archives at Windsor.
The occasion was a grand fancy dress ball hosted in London by the Duchess of Devonshire, in honour of queen Victoria’s 1897 Jubilee. Whereas the queen herself was not at the ball, many of her closest family members were.
The theme of the ball was allegorical or historical (pre 1815) figures. The Prince of Wales, later king Edward VII, came as grand prior of “The Order of St. John of Jerusalem”, while his wife Alexandra came as the French Renaissance queen Marguerite de Valois.
Their daughers were dressed as Renaissance ladies-in-waiting to the “Marguerite de Valois”, in similar corseted, slashed and collared dresses, while Danish prince Carl appeared as a Danish Renaissance courtier. I have never been able to find out the colour of princess Victoria’s dress. But the garments of her sister and brother in law were predominantely pink, purple and metallic. This we know because their attires are wonderfully preserved!
Princess Maud’s attire was made by French Morin-Blossier. The main fabric is a pink silk satin, appliquéed with sheer silk fabric in a diagonal pattern. The silk has then been embellished with silvery sequins and beads. In addition there’s paned sleeves and bodice details with the same sheer silk poking through, and a Recitella-style standing collar and cuffs.
It is not known who made prince Carl’s attire. But it is made of a black silk satin elaborately embroidered with silk and beads. In addition elastic purple hoses of wool and silk, thigh-high black boots, lace collar and cuffs, and a merallic belt with sword. And not to forget the matching tall, plumed hat. To look the part, the prince even wore a fake beard, to get the proper Renaissance look!
Today the costumes are is in the care of The National Museum in Oslo (OK-1991-0256 and OK-1991-0251).
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![Victorian Fancy Dress: Lady Lurgan, née Emily Julia Cadogan [left] and Lady Sophie Scott, née Cadoga](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0f2402d0bd62d41c3467002215aeca5d/tumblr_oynwoyDQfA1sjg84qo1_1280.jpg "Victorian Fancy Dress: Lady Lurgan, née Emily Julia Cadogan [left] and Lady Sophie Scott, née Cadoga")
Victorian Fancy Dress: Lady Lurgan, née Emily Julia Cadogan [left] and Lady Sophie Scott, née Cadogan [right] as "Furies" – Alecto and Megæra — Devonshire House Masquerade Ball(1897)
According to the Lafayette archive,
Both ladies were the daughters of the 5th Earl Cadogan, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1895 to 1902…. The sisters dressed for the Ball most impractically as two of the personifications of vengeance, known to the Romans as “the Furies.”Taking their costume components from Dante’s Inferno, they commissioned the costumer, Mrs Mason of New Burlington Street, to create “classical draperies” with hanging sleeves of crimson gauze shot with gold. For Dante’s “waists cinctured with green hydras”, they wore girdles of jewelled serpents with emerald and ruby eyes. Where the Inferno states “For hair they had horned snakes and poison adders”, they wore jewelled serpent head-dresses. or as The Queen stated: “they were wreathed around the head with reptiles”. [x]
Evidently – based on reporting by The Queen on 19 July 1897, Lady Scott looked like this illustration, including “’diamond wings’ not worn for the photographic portrait”:
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Gustave Courbet’s oil on canvas portrait of Louis Guéymard as the title hero in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable.
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Im loving this dress and the color! couple more weeks, and it will be too cold for this. #AlmostFall
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