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From blog Bleu Avenue
High Socie-tea: A Brief History of Tea Dresses
I never heard of Tea Dresses growing up, which is surprising given how much I loved dresses. Guess my family traveled in the wrong circles; not a lot of farmer's wives sit around drinking afternoon tea in pretty frocks. Manure spattered overalls were farm couture for all the women in my mother's circle in the 1980s. Regardless, the concept of a Tea Dress has been around since the 19th century and originally referred to a sort of dressing gown that one would wear while lounging in style and sipping tea. As time progressed, a tea gown became a dress somewhere between the casual style worn-around-the-house and the fancy-style worn for an evening out that...
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