Polonaise (clothing)
The robe à la polonaise is a woman's garment of the later 1770s and 1780s or a similar revival style of the 1880s inspired by Polish national costume,[1] (usually referred to as a polonaise) consisting of a gown with a cutaway, draped and poufed overskirt, worn over an underskirt or petticoat.
The eighteenth century polonaise (also referred to as a milkmaid dress[citation needed]) was a conscious imitation of rustic country women's habit of tucking their outer gowns up to keep them out of the muck.[citation needed] The bodice was cut loosely and with no waist seam, more like a man's coat than a robe à l'anglaise; the skirt was cut with rounded front corners and was pulled up with cords into three swags.[2] A variation on the robe à la polonaise was the robe à la circassienne, cut the same but trimmed with "oriental" tassels or fur.[3]
The nineteenth century revival style, sometimes described as "Dolly Varden"[4] had lost all connotations of this rustic origin.
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Jeune Dame ... vêtue en Polonoise, French, Gallerie des Modes, 1779. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 44.1400.
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Misses' Polonaise Costume, from Butterick's Delineator for September 1883. The polonaise is shown over a ruffled underskirt.
[edit] References
- ^ (English) "Polonaise (dress)". www.britannica.com. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/468174/polonaise. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
- ^ Weber, Caroline (2006). Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. New York: Picador. pp. 147. ISBN 9870312427344.
- ^ Ribeiro, Aileen (1988). Fashion in the French Revolution. London: Batsford. pp. 28.
- ^ (English) The Ladies' Treasury (2005). "Fashion in the 1870s and '80s". http://www.tudorlinks.com/treasury/articles/view187080.html. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction c.1860–1940, Wace 1966, Macmillan 1972. Revised metric edition, Drama Books 1977. ISBN 0-89676-027-8 Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6317-5 de Marly, Diana: Working Dress: A History of Occupational Clothing, Batsford (UK), 1986; Holmes & Meier (US), 1987. ISBN 0-8419-1111-8 Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS Tozer, Jane and Sarah Levitt, Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770–1870, Laura Ashley Press, ISBN 0-9508913-0-4
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[edit] External links
- Robe à la polonaise, Kyoto Costume Institute
- Robe à la polonaise, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Fashion plates with robes à la polonaise, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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