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Empire gown

Clothes for Women
Inventory number
2019.8.5.11ab.CW.DR.C1800.IT
Description
Light cotton muslin Empire style waistline dress with long sleeves embellished with silver thread embroidered butterflies and flowers, adorned with cut steel sequins and a scarf of the same fabric completes the silhouette. 

The fabric of this dress was used to create another dress from the same period and also belonging to the same non-noble family DE CARLI. They had a couture fashion workshop in Milan, and holiday house at Lido (Venice), villa Yolanda, in the style of Russian chalet.
Materials
Cotton muslin
Silver thread
Steel sequins
Origin
circa 1800 Italy
Related object
Empire gown
Exhibition History
• 2014.09.04–2019.08.04. ‘Three Centuries of fashion. From Alexandre Vassiliev foundation collection.’ Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, Lithuania.