tea gown

They used to be called tea gowns many years ago.

"One piece that we sold was a medieval tea gown," she said.

I'll change into my new tea gown, just until dinner."

This dress might have been called a tea gown at this time (1900).

Lucile was most famous for her lingerie, tea gowns, and evening wear.

She was dressed in a clinging medieval tea gown of dull blue brocade.

Facing them was a lady in a pale moss-green, rather rubbed, velvet tea gown.

Two women in Watteau-backed tea gowns with high sashed waists, 1899.

Tea Gown of 1899 shows "Watteau back" and frothy trim.

His tea gowns are the height of elegance."

Tea gowns were not worn with corsets, therefore referred to as a reform or rational garment.

Ripley Keswick had gone to his attic to dress himself in tea gowns.

A drooping bunch of black feathers from a hat that should have been paired with a tea gown hid her features.

She was particularly known for her draped tea gowns and exotic evening dresses, often using fabrics she had designed herself.

The days of steamer trunks, pressed trousers, tea gowns, neckties and clean fingernails are gone.

It's not a robe, it's a tea gown.

Liberty & Co. tea gown of figured silk twill, c. 1887.

Rising from the stool, Lorena smoothed her hands over the mountainous terrain of her tea gown.

Aesthetic ideas influenced the tea gown, a frothy confection increasingly worn in the home, even to receive visitors.

She made tea gowns."

Ten minutes afterward, when she reappeared in a tea gown, she clasped her hands in a perfect ecstasy.

Later tea gowns featured frothy or feminine detail:

Fashion plate shows the frothy trained afternoon dress descended from the tea gown, worn with an oversized hat and gloves, 1904.

One of the earliest examples embodying freedom is a tea gown by Mariano Fortuny, from 1920.

She was wearing a most peculiar garment, part negligee, part tea gown, shell-pink in color and covered with frills.