![Women wearing evening dresses decorated with flower garlands, Madame Maury designs, colored engraving from La Mode Women wearing evening dresses decorated with flower garlands, Madame Maury designs, colored engraving from La Mode](https://images-cdn.bridgemanimages.com/api/1.0/image/600wm.XXX.41319150.7055475/5188135.jpg)
Women wearing evening dresses decorated with flower garlands, Madame Maury designs, colored engraving from La Mode
![Dress. Culture: American. Date: 1876-78. The most salient feature of eighteenth-century appropriation demonstrated in this dress is its long line of embroidery at center front and descending to the hem. The floral Dress. Culture: American. Date: 1876-78. The most salient feature of eighteenth-century appropriation demonstrated in this dress is its long line of embroidery at center front and descending to the hem. The floral](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/PAPGMT/dress-culture-american-date-1876-78-the-most-salient-feature-of-eighteenth-century-appropriation-demonstrated-in-this-dress-is-its-long-line-of-embroidery-at-center-front-and-descending-to-the-hem-the-floral-decoration-and-its-placement-on-the-garment-arise-not-from-copying-eighteenth-century-womens-fashion-but-from-a-comprehension-of-eighteenth-century-menswear-it-is-as-if-the-waistcoats-ebullient-decorative-impulse-has-been-transferred-to-the-brown-wool-of-this-almost-too-dour-nineteenth-century-dress-museum-metropolitan-museum-of-art-new-york-usa-PAPGMT.jpg)
Dress. Culture: American. Date: 1876-78. The most salient feature of eighteenth-century appropriation demonstrated in this dress is its long line of embroidery at center front and descending to the hem. The floral
![Le donne che indossano abiti da sposa, Madame Fladry disegni, incisione da La Mode Illustree, n. 8, 20 febbraio 1876 Le donne che indossano abiti da sposa, Madame Fladry disegni, incisione da La Mode Illustree, n. 8, 20 febbraio 1876](https://images-cdn.bridgemanimages.com/api/1.0/image/600wm.XXX.79219150.7055475/5188118.jpg)