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Promenade dress

Designer Mme. Blanchard French
1882
Not on view
Like the late-eighteenth-century promenade dresses à la polonaise, which hovered at the ankle and ballooned at sides and back, the style of the 1880s was to create volumes of form around the body while freeing the ankle and foot. The 1880s style was influenced by the new sports clothing of the time, especially walking and croquet dresses.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Promenade dress
  • Designer: Mme. Blanchard (French)
  • Date: 1882
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: silk
  • Credit Line: Gift of Estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes, 1943
  • Object Number: C.I.43.7.4a, b
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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