The Dresses

[Hikari]

Hi Grand Duchess Kassy! I found some photos where OTMA might be wearing these dresses but I'm not 100% sure since the quality of my photos aren't that great.

Here's another photo from the same session you posted :


Photo taken in 1905 - 1906 :

[edubs31]

Adorable! Love that first one with Marie giggling while seated in the chair. Would like to know who is being silly behind the camera!

[Rodney_G.]

Adorable! Love that first one with Marie giggling while seated in the chair. Would like to know who is being silly behind the camera!

You gotta love Marie's arm and hand around Tatiana's shoulder in reply 74. Make that adorable squared.

[edubs31]

Adorable! Love that first one with Marie giggling while seated in the chair. Would like to know who is being silly behind the camera!

You gotta love Marie's arm and hand around Tatiana's shoulder in reply 74. Make that adorable squared.

Ah, yes! Somehow I missed those photos. Great stuff!

[Kassafrass]

Thank you everyone! I just wish there was more contrast and better quality to those photos available to us. For some reason I just really want to be able to assign a dress to each girl...

[Kassafrass]

Wasn't sure if this was the spot to post this or not...

Anastasia Nikolaevna's skirt from the Ipatiev house with her initials sewn into the waist.

[Rodney_G.]

Wasn't sure if this was the spot to post this or not...

Anastasia Nikolaevna's skirt from the Ipatiev house with her initials sewn into the waist.

 Amazing photos, if their provenance as from Ipatiev House is accurate. Possible I guess, though I would have thought they'd have been more prominently displayed and  better known of before now. Her initials sewn into the waist are another thing of which we can't be sure, though I'd like to imagine  it so. 

[rosieposie]

Apparently there was a fair few items of clothing of the Imperial family found in the possession of the guards,  this also included corsets and underclothes.  I think in the Autumn of the Romanovs?  There was a list of inventory of items found in the house, local garbage dump, possession of/and homes of guards.     It looks more like a night dress (with skirt) or a winter chemise, top and skirt.   

I blown my screen to 150% and I can see the Cyrillic A H or A N (To us) stitched in red.

This item was most likely listed in the inventory. 

A wonderful find there.

[TimM]

Those are lovely dresses.

[Olga Maria]

Wow, this dress is wonderful, Kaylyn!!! Thank you!!
Looking at it I think that Anastasia was thin. Despite of the corset, I still think she was thin.
The cloth and design of that dress are simple, definitely proving  that they were simple and practical people.
DO you have information on where this has been displayed? Thanks in advance!

[Kassafrass]

Unfortunately the site where I found it does not list where it is being kept. If anyone else knows or finds out, I would love to know!

[1130 WNEW]

I'm surprised girls were wearing corsets this well into the 20th century?

[CountessKate]

I'm surprised girls were wearing corsets this well into the 20th century?

I posted on girls' corsets here :http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=12974.msg162958#msg162958 and here: http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=12974.msg202393#msg202393 .  More recent discussion of corsets in relation to the views of Tatiana's mother Alexandra, can be found starting here: http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=16675.msg513155#msg513155 .

[rosieposie]

I'm surprised girls were wearing corsets this well into the 20th century?

Corsets were still being worn until around the early 30s?   Though people would have still worn corsets or girdles for medical reasons,  corsets started to make a come back in during the punk era.   Corsets were seen in the movie Rocky Horror Picture show (1975).