Tea Gown - Gowns Definition of Clothing Apparel Search
A tea gown or
tea-gown is a woman's
at-home
dress
of the late 19th to mid-20th
centuries characterized
by unstructured lines, light
fabrics, and frothy or feminine
detail.
- Every one knows that a tea-gown is a hybrid between a wrapper and a ball dress. It has always a train and usually long flowing sleeves; is made of rather gorgeous materials and goes on easily, and its chief use is not for wear at the tea-table so much as for dinner alone with one's family.
- It can, however, very properly be put on for tea, and if one is dining at home, kept on for dinner. Otherwise a lady is apt to take tea in whatever dress she had on for luncheon, and dress after tea for dinner.
- One does not
go out to dine in a
tea-gown except in the
house of a member of
one's family or a most
intimate friend. One
would wear a tea-gown
in one's own house in
receiving a guest to
whose house one would
wear a dinner dress.
Emily Post, Etiquette, 1922.
In contemporary usage, any flowing dress of sheer or translucent fabric, in pastel colors, mid-calf to ankle-length, may be called a tea gown.
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