1892 Benedicte Wrensted

Inspiration to this design I have found from Museum Collections. 
The original dress has a fitted bodice, with a pointed waist, and a frilled collar and cuffs trimmed with gauze and a machine-embroidered border. The leg-of-mutton sleeves are long, full, gathered at the shoulders and gauged at the insides of the elbows.
It would have been worn as a fashionable day wear in 1890s. 



Benedicte Marie Wrensted, born in 1859, was a notable Danish-American photographer, who emigrated to the United States after running a studio for a few years in Horsens, Denmark. She was an obscure photographer who is most notably remembered for her documentation of the Northern Shoshone, Lemhi, and Bannock tribes in Idaho between 1895-1912.