The dress is made of white mull decorated with yellow leaves. Such thin fabrics were considered quite revealing and leading the wearer to ‘dress in French and freeze in Danish’. This dress was inspired by classical Greece and Rome.
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Title: White dress a l’empire (back)
Date Created: 1820/1879
Provenance: The dress supposedly belonged to Hedvig Marie West, née Schumacher (1805-79).