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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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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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Opera Dress and Private Concert Dress, illustrating cuffed short sleeves (edged with lace), shirred bodices, an emphasis on the waist, elaborate trims, elaborate coiffures and hats, decorated with feathers, ribbons, flowers, and beading (published...
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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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Carriage Dresses, illustrating the pelerine made out of matching fabric over a bodice with a high ruffled collar, wide shoulders, leg-of-mutton sleeves, decorative detailing down the front of the dress. The bonnets are fairly simple, framing the...
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Morning Dress and Walking Dress. The Morning Dress illustrates a decorated apron over the dress, with a wrapped bodice underneath and patterned fabric. Leg-of-mutton sleeves and the skirt are both fairly wide, and the headwear is a lace bonnet...
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Walking Dresses, illustrating lace pelerines, trimmed with piping and lace, and tied together with bows, bonnets framing the face and decorated with flowers, bows, ribbon, and lace, wide shoulders and leg-of-mutton sleeve with full, but shorter...
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Salon Dresses, with a redingote made out of fabric apron overlays trimmed in fur and belted at the waist, loose bell sleeves also trimmed in fur, a fur collar with matching ribbon and a full skirt (which is pulled aside slightly to reveal a plaid...
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Summer Walking Dress, showing influences from the eastern Mediterranean; underskirt covered by a lace lined overjacket and lace-lined turban with parasol (published by John Bell)
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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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London Fashionable Walking and Full Dress, showing a laced bodice, slit cap sleeves, gloves, and purse. The Walking dress includes a lace lined overcoat, ermine stole, feathered hat and parasol (engraved for the Lady's Magazine)
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Two day dresses both with skirts evolving into a bustle shape. The left dress is striped and has a small, band collar; long, fitted sleeves, a ribbon belt tied slightly above the natural waistline, and a layered skirt with a long train. The right...
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Evening and outdoor ensembles with fitted bodices and large hoop skirts. The 3 evening dresses all have wide, low necklines edged with lace; short sleeves, pointed waistlines, and gloves. The center woman has a long sleeved, fitted jacket that...
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Day and evening dresses all with full, hoop skirts. The first woman is wearing a burnoose over her dress. The second has a dagged, shoulder cape over her long sleeved, fitted bodice; a long sash tied around her waist with a bow in back; a layered...
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Three walking dresses all with long sleeves and full, hoop skirts. The left woman has a loose jacket with a fold-over collar, long sleeves and decorative buttons over a dress with a decorative band around the hem, and a small bonnet with a snood....
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Two dresses, right dress has lower neckline and exposed shoulders (for evening only); short, multi-layered sleeves, fitted bodice, yoked waist; and a full, floor length skirt, and an elaborate coiffure with ringlets, rolls and flowers. Left dress...
