Tuniekjapon met zilverborduurwerk, Maria Elisabeth Verwer-Offermans, 1915 - Rijksmuseum
Evening dress, M.E. Verwer-Offermans, Amsterdam, 1915. Worn for a silver wedding anniversary. Light pink silk gauze over pink satin gown, trimmed with white satin edges which silver thread embroidery. Pink satin sash tied in bow in back.
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The year 1908 marked the true turning point in fashion, when the stiffly corseted, heavy-bosomed ideal of the Fin-de-Siècle, with its attendant bulk of rustling underwear, finally became demodé, and the slender new twentieth century silhouette was launched. Margaine-Lacroix’s important rôle in bringing about this great fashion change, has long since been forgotten, in part due to the attention today accorded to Paul Poiret and the influence of the Ballets Russes. (text from RBKC Libraries blog)