Green dresses are a personal favorite; this one is up there in my all-time list.
I first ran across it when I was doing research into the history of velvet for one of my ThreadTalk subjects and I could not look away. It looks like it's made of moss, and if I wear it, I may find my way to Faerie.
The date on the gown is somewhere between 1885-1888, & it was made in Scotland by Gowan and Strachan, and is from the National Museums Scotland collection.
If you want to learn more about velvet, I've got a whole page on it with some great resources.
@natania thanks for writing that velvet article. It was interesting and I learned about Velvet codpieces and masks that you kept on by clenching a button.
Also, Your post, made me imagine a mythic tragedy in which someone is extremely vain while alive, and in the afterlife they are made to hold one of those velvet face masks with their teeth. The longer they hold it the more beautiful they get, but if they drop it they get disfigured somehow and have to start over like Sysiphus.
Natania Barron
Johno