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Afternoon Home Dress, demonstrating the increasing importance of receiving visitors in the home. The dress has widening and ruffled shoulders with decoration at the end of the sleeve, the bodice is trimmed with decoration, and there is an emphasis...
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Autumnal Carriage Pelisse (also known as the redingote) and Bonnet, showing the influence of India in the shawl design and headwear (paisley), the Betsy collar (Elizabethan revival ruffle), and the high waist (published for La Belle Assemblee by...
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Carriage Dress and Dinner Party Dress, illustrating hemmed short and loose leg-of-mutton sleeves with widening shoulders overall, the waist emphasized by a belt (one with an animal design), lace shawls, geometric decoration towards the hem, gloves,...
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Carriage Dress and Walking Dress, illustrating fur pelerine (shaped shoulder scarf), leg-of-mutton sleeves with widening shoulders overall and cuffed wrists, hats decorated with ribbons, lace, and bows, and continuing the emphasis on the waist...
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Carriage Dress, Dinner Dress, and Opera Dress. The Opera Dress offers a striped pattern, shirred bodice, puffy leg-of-mutton sleeves, and a belt emphasizing the waist. There is quite a bit of decorate detail, particular near the hem, and the dress...
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Two day dresses both with fitted jackets with lace trim, full skirts, and lace caps with flowers and ribbons. Left dress has jacket flairing out over the hips, a lace collar and chemise, and pagoda sleeves with lace trim. Right dress has a matching...
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Two day dresses both with jewel necklines trimmed with lace, fitted bodices, 3/4 length pagoda sleeves with lace and ruffle edges, small waistlines, and full skirts. The right dress has a jacket style bodice, a plain skirt, and a matching bonnet....
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Two day dresses and a girl's dress. The day dresses both have full skirts and are worn with bonnets elaborately decorated with feathers, lace and ribbons. Left dress seen from back shows a fitted wrap with fringe on the upper portion and layered...
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Evening Dress, with tight and square bodice, short and fitted sleeves, decorated with piping. The dress is cinched at the waist and has a small flounce in the back. The lady is wearing a Grecian head piece, wearing gloves, and carrying a small...
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Evening Dress, illustrating widening shoulders with a decorated bodice, descending waistline marked by ribbon or cummerbund, the emphasis of decoration on the lower hem, with gloves and purse (published for La Belle Assemblee)
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Evening Dress and Dinner Dress, demonstrating widened shoulders and lower necklines, with a sheer shirred bodice and decorative suspender overlay of fabric. Sleeves are puffed leg-of-mutton, somewhat see-through and sheer and cuffed wrists. The...
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Fashions for April, illustrating a loose fitting coat and 4 dresses all with fitted bodices and full skirts. Top left dress has jewel neckline, 3/4 length, ruffle cuffed sleeves, and net mitts; top center has a jewel neckline, 3/4 oversleeves with...
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Fashions for December, showing 3 semi-fitted capes with scalloped or ruffled edges and 2 dresses both with jewel necklines; long, fitted sleeves with lace trimmed undersleeves, narrow waistlines, full skirts and lace caps. The caped women also have...
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Fashions for July showing 2 full dresses, 7 bonnets and a partial dress. The dresses have Bertha collars; long, full sleeves (2 with ruffles around upper arm), gloves, fitted bodices with narrow waistlines; and long, full skirts. The bonnets are...
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Fashions for March, showing lace 2 full dresses and 3 partial views. Both dresses have fitted bodices, narrow waistlines; long, full skirts, and lace caps. Left dress has an attached lace wrap tied in front and lace edged 3/4 length sleeves; Right...
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French Carriage Dress, showing the importance of the pelisse (or redingote) and the Betsy collar (Elizabethan revival ruffle) (published for La Belle Assemblee)
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French Dinner Party Dress, showing the high waist, bonnet framing the face, the emphasis of decoration on the lower hem, and the 2 part sleeve (marmeluke/leg-of-mutton) (published for La Belle Assemblee)
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Full Evening Dress showing piping along the bodice, skirt, and slight leg of mutton sleeves, with attached lace cape; feathers in the Grecian styled hair (published by John Bell for La Belle Assemblee)
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Morning Promenade Dress and Summer Walking Costume, illustrating elaborate ruffled collars and leg-of-mutton sleeves with widening shoulders overall, a highly decorated bodice with lace cutouts, the waist emphasized by ribbons tied in bows or belt,...
