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tea gown

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1. tea gownnoun

   a long loose-fitting gown formerly popular for wear at afternoon tea

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1. Tea gown

   A tea gown or tea-gown is a woman's dress for informal entertaining at home. These dresses, which became popular around the mid-19th century, are characterized by unstructured lines and light fabrics. Early tea gowns were a European development influenced by Asian clothing and historical approach from the 18th century which led to the renaissance time period of long and flowing sleeves. Part of this European sense of fashion came from the Japanese kimono.Tea gowns were intended to be worn without a corset or assistance from the maid; however, elegance always came first.During the 19th century, it was not appropriate for women to be seen in public wearing a tea gown. They were intended to be worn indoors with family and close friends during a dinner party.Although tea gowns were meant for midday wear, they could be worn into the evening. Women started wearing tea gowns in the evening for dinner or certain events at home with close friends and family by 1900. Tea gowns intended for day wear usually had high necks, while evening tea gowns had lower necks."Emily Post’s book, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, contains some fascinating information on tea gowns; in fact, her introduction on tea gowns reads like a 19th Century novel."

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1. tea gown

   A tea gown is a loose, flowing type of dress that was historically worn by women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was typically made of lightweight, luxury fabric such as silk or fine lace, and was designed for comfort and ease of movement. These gowns were often worn during informal at-home entertaining such as afternoon tea. Today, the term may refer to any luxurious, flowing gown that evokes this historic style.

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1. Tea gown

   A tea gown or tea-gown is a woman's at-home dress for informal entertaining of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries characterized by unstructured lines and light fabrics. Early tea gowns were a European development influenced by Asian clothing, part of the japonism of Aesthetic dress. Later tea gowns featured 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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   The numerical value of tea gown in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of tea gown in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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