“ Some tea gowns were in actual fact pretty shut in concept and use of
textiles to lingerie dresses, though as you point out
the previous were indoor dresses solely. Are you aware of any references to using "lingerie dress" in promoting,
ladies fashion journals or suppliers in Britain throughout the period 1900-1920?
If you happen to follow the hyperlinks all
through the article you’ll see that my period sources were balanced between Canada,
the US, and NZ (which acquired almost all of its fashion coverage from the UK).
They may absolutely be known as afternoon tea gowns by modern costumers (by modern I imply put
up 1950s), however the predominant in-period time period in all advertising and vogue columns
I've seen come out of the UK was lingerie dress/frock/waist.
I known as out a trader on Trade Me for describing her (lovely) dresses as
20s-fashion (among many other terms she’d used as tags) when nothing like them would ever have been worn in the 20s, and she simply doubled-down and said that "halternecks have been very fashionable within the 20s".
Erm, even if that was true, not just like the very tightly-fitted-at-the-waist garments she was promoting! ”