Your opinion on last week’s dress very much depended on whether it was seen from the front of the back. This week I present another dress that is quite different depending on the angle you see ...
https://thedreamstress.com/2019/09/rate-the-dress-blue-flowers-big-skirts/
I’m feeling a little sad that I missed so many of the amazing creations at Gala Night at Costume College, and a little sad that I couldn’t ever have taken a heavier, more elaborate dress as a...
https://thedreamstress.com/2019/08/rate-the-dress-1880s-evening-pastels/
When we bought our lovely little cottage four years ago, the master bedroom was painted purple floor to ceiling. It was awful*. When I saw today’s Rate the Dress it instantly reminded me of our...
https://thedreamstress.com/2019/01/rate-the-dress-purple-purple-and-more-purple-1850s/
Last week’s dress was deemed quietly elegant and almost offensively in-offensive. Beautiful (excepting, perhaps the sleeve bows), but too retiring and neutral to inspire much passion on eithe...
https://thedreamstress.com/2018/08/rate-the-dress-late-victorian-totally-un-neutral/
Last week’s Rate the dress took us to the 1740s. This week we’re travelling back in time half a century to ca. 1690, AND forward half a century to ca. 1790, and finishing up ca. 1890, all i...
https://thedreamstress.com/2018/05/rate-the-dress-worth-takes-on-three-centuries/
I enjoyed looking for examples of Pingat creations so much while writing my review of ‘My Official Wife’ that I had to choose one for today’s Rate the Dress. To give a contrast to the ca....
https://thedreamstress.com/2018/04/rate-the-dress-an-enormous-pingat-ballgown/
For last week’s Rate the Dress I showed you menswear, and like most menswear Rate the Dresses, it wasn’t that popular in terms of votes and comments – it’s not that those that commented d...
https://thedreamstress.com/2016/08/rate-the-dress-1871-butterflies-bows/
Last week I showed you an 1880s Pingat in a mix of black fabrics relieved with ecru floral lace. Reactions too it were mixed, to say the very least. Some of you were extremely disappointed in...
https://thedreamstress.com/2016/06/rate-the-dress-romantic-era-red-moire/
Last week I showed you an early 1900s lace dress by Doucet. Generally you liked the romantic lace, and the mix of textures, but while some of you loved it, some of you found it a bit fussy for ...
https://thedreamstress.com/2016/06/rate-the-dress-pingat-does-late-1880s-monochrome/
Last week I showed you a 1920s frock embroidered with poppies, cornflowers & wheat. You almost universally agreed that my choice of hat improved the dress, mostly liked the embroidery, mostly l...
https://thedreamstress.com/2015/12/rate-the-dress-velvet-tassels/