Title	Evening and outdoor ensembles
Subject	Clothing and dress Costume Fashion Fashion Plates Fashion Illustrations
Description	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 matches the top layer of her double-layered skirt and a lace and ribbon trimmed bonnet. The left woman's dress has a square neckline with a ribbon trimmed, pleated lace fichu; long sleeves with ribbon trim and white undersleeves; a belt, and a layered skirt. The women have their hair softly pulled back or rolled into chignons or curls and trimmed with ribbons, lace, or flowers. The dresses are all heavily decorated with tassels, piping, ribbons, rickrack, flowers, ruffles, lace, buttons, or bows. The little girl is wearing a simple, ribbon trimmed dress and a ribbon headband. (published for Godey's Fashions by Kimmel, New York)
Collector	Barton, Mary A., 1894-1976.
Creator	unknown
Date	1865
Collection	Fashion Illustration Collection, 1776-1979 (bulk 1804-1935); http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/arch/rgrp/21-7-9.html
Location	Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives; http://archives.lib.iastate.edu/
Call Number	RS 21/07/009
Format	Fashion illustration 27.9x22.9 cm
Format-Medium	Printed plates, with mechanized color added
Identifier	21-7-9.Barton.5-35-2
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Hardware/Software	Creo iQsmart3; Kodak oXYgen Scan
Image Manipulation	none
Date-Created	2004-09-10
Colorspace	RGB
Format-Type	Image
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Bits Per Sample	8 Bits Per Sample
File Size	2319018 Bytes
Height	2109
Width	2600