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2. Dressing gown - Wikipedia

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   For women, wearing a dressing gown was a break from tight corsets and layers of petticoats. Ladies wore their dressing gowns while eating breakfast, preparing for the day, sewing or having tea with their family. [2] Dressing gowns continued to be worn into the 20th century with similar garments like hostess dresses, robes, and peignoirs being used.

3. Dress - Wikipedia

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   From the 1550s, middle- and upper-class European women could choose between the still popular rigid farthingale style or a looser-style gown known as a ropa. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The ropa style of dress was known by different names throughout Europe, including sumarra (Italy), marlotte (France), and vlieger (Holland). [ 19 ]

4. 1840s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Viennese fashion plate of 1841 shows at-home wear (a patterned dressing gown) and visiting wear. The top hat is becoming taller. Alessandro Manzoni wears tan fly-front trousers with a dark coat and waistcoat. Italy, 1841.

5. See the huge dress that made 'Big Fat Gypsy Wedding' history

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   The massive gown ended up weighing about 110 pounds and was made up of 500 feet of tubing, 400 yards of fabric and at least 50,000 rhinestones. Sondra told the Boston Herald the dress took a lot ...

6. Nightgown - Wikipedia

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   The nightgown was a "version of a modern dressing gown" and tended to be worn around the house or to occasions when formal attire was not necessary. This garment was actually a Banyan, a T-shirt shaped robe adopted by the British from India but became known as a "nightgown", dressing gown or "morning gown" in the early 1700s due to its casual ...

7. 1500–1550 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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   Anne's gown is open at the front to reveal a figured silk kirtle beneath. The gowns have wide sleeves with turned-back cuffs lined in fur, 1508. Anne Stafford wears a black fur-lined gown with turned-back sleeves over a dark kirtle [13] She wears a soft sash at her waist and a sheer partlet over a square-necked chemise, c. 1535.