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Wedding day dresses, showing heavily decorated bodices with lace chemisettes and overlays, still emphasizing a small waist. Wedding dress has jewel neckline, long sleeves with ruffle cuffs, a triple layered full skirt, and a full length veil...
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Two walking dresses and a child's dress. The left dress has a fitted bodice with a lace collar; full, 3/4 length sleeves ending in layers of lace; a flounced skirt decorated with geometrically designed piping of ribbon ruffles, and a lace bonnet...
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Walking Dress, illustrating the Spencer jacket, the Betsy collar (Elizabethan revival ruffle), oversized muff, the emphasis on the lower hem decoration, and the cut-out sleeve with fur applique (matching the muff) (published for La Belle Assemblee...
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Walking Dress, illustrating the use of plaid in cotton/silk fabrics, a higher neckline, shirred bodice, the dropping waist emphasized by a belt, and the emphasis of decoration on the lower hem (published for La Belle Assemblee)
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Walking Dress, showing a redingote (or pelisse), with marmaluke sleeve (widening shoulders), the Betsy collar (Elizabethan revival ruffle), the emphasis on the waist with a belt, decoration at the ends of the sleeves, the emphasis of decoration on...
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Public Concert Dress and Dinner Dress, showing the following: leg-of-mutton sheer sleeves with widening shoulders overall, a highly decorated shirred bodice with decorate ribbon and exposing the neck and upper chest, the waist emphasized by a belt,...
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