Who What Wear An ode to Grace Kelly. Best Actress nominee Jessie Buckley radiates elegance in an off the shoulder @chanelofficial gown at the 2026 Instagram House of Worth Evening dress French The Metropolitan Museum of Art Historically, women's evening dress tended to be more physically revealing than day dress. Worn in private or semi private spaces, dresses with low necklines and bare arms were accepted as aesthetically sublimated eroticism. [ Evening dress American The Metropolitan Museum of Art The 1810s were not entirely about white, as this evening dress surely attests. Far from it. Color was still a major player. This surviving evening ensemble is possibly one that was meant What was an 18th century "Night gown"? Throughout much of the 18th century in England and its American colonies*, the term "night gown" or more often just "gown" described a garment whose bodice back