The lingerie dress was worn throughout the previous decades of the Edwardian era, as well as throughout the 1910s. While earlier versions were typically very lacy and frilly, lingerie dresses from the late 1910s were much plainer and started to move towards the iconic silhouette and styles of the 1920s. The elements of this transition present in this lingerie dress are the loose and lowered waist, little ornamentation, and slimming skirts.
K-State Historic Costume & Textile Museum, Anonymous Donor, 1987.62.1
A Transition to the 1920s
“Women's lingerie dress, 1918Cotton voile,” Keeping Up in Kansas: Women's Fashion in the 1910s, accessed July 7, 2023, https://ccrsdigitalprojects.com/womens-lingerie-dress-1918-cotton-voile
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