Bertha Palmer's evening dress, 1893 (front oblique view). Silk satin, crepe, and velvet, metal cord, rhinestone, and silk flower embroidery by Charles Frederick Worth. Evening gown worn by Bertha Honore Palmer (Mrs. Potter Palmer I) to the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.Bertha Palmer (nee Honore, 1849 - 1918) was an American socialte and buisnesswoman and was the first wife of businessman Potter Palmer. (Photo by Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)
Bertha Palmer's evening dress, 1893, with undergarments. Silk satin, crepe, and velvet, metal cord, rhinestone, and silk flower embroidery by Charles Frederick Worth. Evening gown worn by Bertha Honore Palmer (Mrs. Potter Palmer I) to the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.Bertha Palmer (nee Honore, 1849 - 1918) was an American socialte and buisnesswoman and was the first wife of businessman Potter Palmer. (Photo by Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)
Evening dress, 1861 (side oblique view). Silk satin, silk ribbon, hand-made point de gaze lace, attributed to Worth & Bobergh. (Photo by Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)
Evening dress, ca 1884 (back oblique partial view). Silk satin and cut velvet, lace, silk thread tassels and fringe by Charles Frederick Worth; worn by Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick, nee Nancy 'Nettie' Fowler. (Photo by Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)
April 1923: Ankle length dress by the couturier Charles Frederick Worth, decorated with an intricately beaded yoke and cuffs. The model is also wearing leather gloves with a patterned inlay. (Photo by Seeberger Freres/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)
