1850s fashion plate

UN SIÈCLE de MODES FÉMININES, 1794 - 1894, Paris, 1896, (A Century Of Feminine Fashion) Twenty pages of text and approximately 192 color images showing...

Unknown. Women's and girl's day dresses for walking for the Journal des Demoiselles. Paris, c.1850

Two women in full dress. The woman on the left wears a blue bonnet tied under her chin and a taupe over dress and a white dress with a floral pattern. The coat has wide lapels and buttons down the front. She wears white gloves and holds small pink parasol in the crook of her arm. The woman on the right is shown in a white bonnet with pink roses on the side and a pink dress with white lace trim along the neckline. She wears a jacket made of black lace or netting fastened with a pink bow, and…

The woman on the left wears a purple, off-the-shoulder dress with a fitted bodice and full skirts. The neckline is edged with a wide band of white lace, and the sleeves are short, puffing twice above the elbow and ending in a cascade of white lace set off with a white braid bow. The woman wears a long purple cord belt with tasseled ends, and short white gloves with ruffles at the wrists. Her shoes are white and she wears a pleated white headdress trimmed with yellow ribbon. In her left hand…

Gift of Woodman Thompson

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