Dresses of Empress Elisabeth

[Eric_Lowe]

Yes...the fruits of her diet and exersise. She was way ahead of Jane Fonda.

[Alixz]

It is so odd that I just mentioned having gone to that exhibition at the Met in NY and then I found the catalogue on Ebay!

After all these years, I can get the exhibition catalogue that I didn't buy in 1980.

It is called Imperial Style and it features the clothing of the Hapsburg Empire.

If there are any new pictures, I will post them.

[crazy_wing]

In the early 1980s I went to an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC that reatured the clothing of the late 1890s and early 1900s.

You would not believe how small Sisi's waist was.  The dress was a "mourning" dress, similar to the one in the photo above.

I don't rmember much about the rest of the exhibition, just how tiny her waist must have been.

I think she kept her waist at around 18-20 inches!

[Alixz]

Here is a partial picture of the dress I was talking about.


The book was a disappointment as it showed more paintings than actual costumes and dresses.

[Alixz]

One more thing, one of the books I read on Sissi said that she was often "sewn into" her riding habits.  Also that she wore" improper underwear"  I think that was so there would be no "panty lines".  Who knows, but she was very very concerned about her appearance until after Rudoph died.  Then it is said that she wore only black and gave up wearing her extensive jewelry collection.

She is an intersting albeit sad lady.  I wonder how any of us would have done in her place.  She was so young when she married and was (as were most of her contemporaries) sadly unprepared to become an Empress.

Arch Duchess Sophie sounds formidable.  The kind of mother-in-law who sends shivers of terror down the spines of her daughters- in-law.

[Eric_Lowe]

She did ! However once Sisi discover the power of her beauty and popularity, she managed to keep her at arms link.

[Ally Kumari]

I always thought that those Hungary-coronation photos were her best. She looks stunning and that dress is awesome. Not one of other photosets of her is as beautiful as this one.

[Ally Kumari]

Here´s that amazing dress:

[IrinaAlexandrovna]

Indeed is....
When i was in Vienna i saw some of her dresses and the one which she was killed with.... I even got postcards of them i found at home only those two... More  are comming

[IrinaAlexandrovna]

The other ones (That scanner is playing with my nerves look what he did on the first picture... )

 (because the postcards are connected one by one)



Our favourite dress






And my favourite portrait and dress


They are probably not new but have seen very little part in websites.... usually the first one.....

[Ally Kumari]

Those dresses were beautiful, but I bet terribly annoying to wear. Those skirts and corsets couldn´t have been comfortable at all.

[IrinaAlexandrovna]

Ou they are not comfortable.... This summer there was some sort of carnival... i wore such type of dress and it's really heavy it's like you are holding a kid on your back...

[brnbg aka: liljones1968]

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NOTE RE: THIS THREAD

my immediate choices were:

1 photos of the empress & her family

2 her jewelry

3 dolls in her image

or

4 create a thread


--- > since none of my pics
contain a person or face
most are not of jewelry
and
none are of dolls...

guess which option i chose?  

lol   :-)


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the carriage in which Elisabeth rode to her wedding
(brought to Austria by Marie-Louise after N's fall)



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the train of Elisabeth's wedding gown



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this gown & wrap, brought to Vienna as part of her trousseau, are embroidered w/ Hebrew
(the wrap reminds me of a Jewish prayer shawl...)





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one of Elisabeth's hofkleider





pieces from her collection of mourning jewelry



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copy of the Worth gown worn for the Hungarian Coronation





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the gala coach the Elisabeth rode in to be crowned queen of Hungary

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

I haven't seen that jewels.

The same dress

 More things related



a copy of the stars

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

I found it was Sissi's