Discover Royal Women at Fashion Museum Bath: Queen Alexandra/Series
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2022
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Take a close look at two dresses which once belonged to Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII of Great Britain. The first dress (1890s) was worn when Alexandra was Princess of Wales. In the 1930s it was worn to fancy dress parties by its new owner before being donated to the Museum of Costume (now Fashion Museum Bath). Watch as the Fashion Museum team discover something new about the dress! The second heavily embellished dress was worn in the 1910s when Alexandra was Queen.
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Incredible, I adore Alexandra’s clothes!! Thank you for treasuring and caring for these pieces.
Alexandra and her sister Dagmar, the tsarina of Russia, were queens of style. And they knew what was what because before they became rich queens and empresses, they were quite poor and so, as girls made their own clothes.
Poor is a bit overstated in their case.
Meeka: I can't remember the exact date (late 1800s, but before Dagmar's husband became Tsar Alexander III) but on a a visit to the England, Alexandra and Dagmar dressed in identical outfits at least several times throughout the stay. Needless to say, the public was knocked for the proverbial loop by this. And you're right: when they were girls, the family had to live on their father's pay as an officer in the Danish Army; there wasn't a great deal of money to be spent on clothes. As there were eventually six children to clothe, the older girls had to learn to make many of their own clothes.
@@willyboy3581 compared to real working class or even middle class they where well of. They where members of the royal family!
@@user-ez4jy6jj4g As far as royalty goes, they were poor.
She was positively resplendent! She wore more jewels than clothing!
The dresses are lovely. The fashion of that era were very flattering for women - it was depicted perfectly in the movie Titanic.
Her jewels were stunning too😊
Agreed! Like Queen Mary after her, she liked to pile them on, too! Between the beautiful gowns and to be dripping in priceless jewelry, what a way to live!
That slender waist after having 6 children is remarkable!
Exquisite! Queen Alexandra truly brought fine-tailoring into vogue. Thank you for sharing this. ✨
How I wished I could visit this museum! Queen Alexandra was so beautiful, so elegant, so svelte right up to her death, aged 80. I need to start saving my money!
Hi, we plan to reopen the Fashion Museum in a new central location in Bath in several years time, so hope you can visit us then! In the meantime take a look at our list of Fashion Museum items on tour: www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/fashion-museum-objects-tour
@@fashion_museum_bath Very cool! Thank you!
@@fashion_museum_bath - Ill be coming for sure. I've studied fashion most of life and I've always wanted to go to the Victoria and Albert museaum to see some of these costumes. Thanks for the info.
@@fashion_museum_bath - I just signed up. 😀
@@fashion_museum_bath - I just watched a show by the memory seekers here on utube, about Bath. Wonderful channel and very professionally presented.
I could watch a whole video on that maker’s tag: how they were made, by what member of an atelier, how they were sewn into the garment 😍😍
Stunning dresses, wonderful to see. One point for accuracy: Queen Alexandria was not Queen in the 1910s - Edward V11 died in April 1910.
Many thanks! I enjoyed this very much, such beautiful gowns…..
they are rather wonderful aren't they?
Very interesting, thank you for showing these dresses to us. Next time in Britain I will stop in Bath to visit the Fashion Museum.
glad you enjoyed it. Do follow us on social media for the latest developments on our new museum. At present the collection is in storage although we are loaning items to museums around the world.
Im not sure if its still there,but back in 2007 at Dunedin, New Zealand, railway station museum there was a section of fashion that had absolutely beautiful old dresses. It was there that my interest grew for such beautiful, incredible pieces of exquisite art ❤.
I wish we could have annual dances to dress up like this just for the sake of preserving ladies to look and feel amazing ❤❤❤
Alexandra was not the Queen Consort in the 1910s. If she was 66 when she received the dress, then her husband the King had died in the previous year. We would now say she was the Queen Dowager or Queen Mother but she was known just as Queen Alexandra. Something not covered here is that she was covetous of jewellery and wore tons of it.
I believe they're referring to positions, not titles. She was technically queen consort, though not referred to as anything other than "The Queen" during Edward's reign and then simply "Queen Alexandra" following his death. And she was still "The Queen" until May of 1910, and in that year she was indeed aged 65, turning 66 in December. So while she wasn't "The Queen" when aged 66, they're speaking more in generalities.
All the royal ladies of the time did, even Queen Victoria wore a lot of jewellery with her black mourning clothes.
Gorgeous ❤
I love how they were calling Alexandra 'Queen Consort' back in November 2022 - something they never would have done during her lifetime.
Was Prince Albert known as the Prince Consort at the time?
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He married Queen Victoria in 1840 and she created him Prince Consort in 1857. He died four years later.
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Thank you
Это прекрасно, спасибо, 🎉🎉🎉
I don’t know how long it carried into the turn of the century but the second dress reminded me that in Victorian times an evening/dinner dress needed to have short sleeves and a low neckline.
Yes absolutely - womenswear in the first decade of the twentieth century largely followed the fashion of the previous century with evening gowns more revealing than day dresses with a low décolletage and shorter sleeves.
More of this kind of thing!
So glad you enjoyed it !
Love seeing you all together in this video ❤️
I think she like lavender as a color.
She did and the 1893 dress was made when she was still in mourning for her son Eddy who had died the year previously. She was said to have never again worn bright colours after this loss.
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I don't think the title Queen Consort is correct in referring to Alexandria. She was born a princess of Denmark. She would just be called Queen of England. Consort refers to a spouse of the King who was not born a princess. Such as Camilla, the wife of the present day King Charles.
In the British system (and many others), women derive position from their husbands. When Princess Alexandra's husband became THE King she as his wife became THE Queen. When he died, she became Queen Alexandra and Princess Mary of Teck became THE Queen. There were two women with the position of queen, one being a Queen Dowager (Alexandra) and the other being a Queen Consort (Mary). They were never called Queen Consort of Queen Dowager except in the most formal of historical biographies and certainly never addressed as Queen Consort. The Queen Mother was also a Queen Dowager (The United Kingdom actually had two Queens Dowager following George VI's death for a brief period. There's a famous picture of the three queens in mourning clothes: Queen Elizabeth II (technically a queen regnant), The Queen Mother (a queen dowager), and Queen Mary (a queen dowager). But don't worry too much about the technical aspects of what kind of queen these remarkable women were. Those technical details are usually used for historical clarification in biographies, etc.
So will the embellishments added to the first dress be removed, or have they become part of the history of that garment?
A great question! There are no plans to remove the embellishment at the moment and as you say, it’s definitely become part of the history of that garment.
Thank you @@fashion_museum_bath
To think a woman dressed elegantly and not in spandex leggings and bra top.
Right? Women of that era would pass out from shock if they saw the way some girls and women of today dress. Quite sad in many ways.
The current Princess of Wales doesn’t dress like that!
Don't under estimate corsetry!!! for achieving more 'fashionable' shilouettes!
The beads are a distraction to the dress.
Queen Alexandra was the Diana of her time. Victoria wore boring black and hid away most of the time on the Isle of Wight. When the The new Princes of Wales, who came from Denmark, she brought with her, youth and good looks. She was adored by the British for bringing glamour, colour and joy to Britain.
The dresses of the British Queen were of course made by French couturiers😅
Я понимаю,такая миниатюрная фигура,поддерживалась диетами?или просто скудной ,по тем временам была пища?без лукавства.я все понимаю.все равно личные врачи были .я,хоть в чем то права?.
Many thanks! I enjoyed this very much, such beautiful gowns…..