Woman’s robe a la française, England, circa 1765. Silk plain weave (faille) with silk and metallic-thread supplementary-weft patterning (lamella or strip, fillé, and frisé), trimmed with metallic lace.
c.1765
An unrelenting feed of all the shiny things I find on the web, possibly to coalesce into some greater purpose in the future. I am interested in: Neo-Victorian, Gothic, and Lolita fashion, fatshion and FA, feminism, pretty things, books and info sci, and pretty much all things nerdy. I blog at Ruffles Not Diets
