Panier Collection

Woman in pearl-grey suit and black straw hat. Tailleur de satin gris de perle, chapeau de paille noir. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Woman in panier dress in coffee-coloured satin with pet dog. Robe a panier en satin cafe. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Xavier Gose from Tommaso Antonginis Journal

Young woman in dress of white crepe de chine, 1913
Young woman in dress of white crepe de chine decorated with black velvet in garden with roses on lattice. Robe de jeune fille en crepe de chine blanc et garnie de velours noirs

PANIER REVIVAL 1912
Latest Paris mode is a recreation or revival of a mid C18th polonaise called here a panier dress. Worn with Louis heel shoes & a fur stole. Date: 1912

Figure in Panier Alley
This statue still stands in Panier Ally, close to Paternoster Row. Its origin is unknown. Date: 19th century

Music cover, Le Panier de Fruit, by W H Birch
Music cover, Le Panier de Fruit, waltz for piano by W H Birch. circa 1880s

Tunic dress circa 1912
Exotically patterned & brightly coloured tunic dress: narrow skirt, over-skirt draped to form a polonaise & a pleated tunic with a wrap over corsage. Worn with a soft hat. Date: circa 1912

French soldier, 14th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

Ladies in Panier Dresses
Ladies at the court of Louis XV, in the fashionable panier dresses which required great skill on the wearers part

Cheapside Circa 1740
Scene in Cheapside (?) with ladies wearing the newly fashionable panier-style skirts, much to the amusement of the less flamboyant members of the public

Panier Dress ?1777
A lady, in a gown with low, square decolletage and wide hoops or paniers, enters a box at the opera. Possibly a grande robe a la francaise

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