Above: From Barbara Tfank’s Fall 2014 collection found here.
It was usual for ladies who received in the evening to wear what were called “simple dinner-dresses”; a close-fitting armor of whale-boned silk, slightly open in the neck, with lace ruffles filling in the crack, and tight sleeves with a flounce uncovering just enough wrist to show n Etruscan gold bracelet or a velvet band. But Madame Olenska, heedless of tradition, was attired in a long robe of red velvet bordered about the chin and down the front with glossy black fur. Archer remember, on his last visit to Paris, seeing a portrait by a new painter, Carolus Duran, whose pictures were the sensation of the Salon, in which the lady wore one of these sheath-like robes with her chin nestling in fur. There was something perverse and provocative in the notion of fur worn in the evening in a heated drawing room, and in the combination of a muffled throat and bare arms; but the effect was undeniably pleasing.
- from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Above: From Barbara Casasola’s Fall 2014 collection here.
Above: From Donna Karan’s Fall 2014 collection found here.
Above: From Emilia Wickstead’s Fall 2014 collection found here.
Above: from Erin Fetherson’s fall 2014 collection found here.
Above: From Giulietta’s Fall 2014 collection found here.
Above: From Honor Fall 2014 found here.
Above: From Jenny Packham Fall 2014 found here.
