A
lingerie dress was a popular type of
dress in the
North America and
Europe throughout the decades of the 1900s until 1920. The dress was lightweight, often white and decorated. It was especially popular as an outdoor dress and for summer.
Overview
Lingerie dresses were heavily decorated and designed to look like a
Regency era chemise gown.
The dresses featured full skirts, blouses and sleeves of varying lengths.
They were most often white, but not always.
The dresses could also be worn over different colored
Gown or slips, expanding a woman's wardrobe.
The dresses were named "lingerie" in order to emphasize the lightness and thinness of the dresses, not to suggest
lingerie as an undergarment.
The more sheer the lingerie dress, the better.
The dresses were made of various fabrics, including
linen,
cotton or
silk and parts of the dress were see-through to reveal the slip or gown worn underneath.
Lingerie dresses were worn by various classes of women in North America and Europe in the decades of the 1900s up to the 1920.
The dresses could be bought ready-made or created at home by pattern.[ Thursday, 26 August 2021 ]
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