These gowns and general fashionable observations appeared in the July 1818 edition of Ackermann’s Repository. Both examples of mourning attire, the heavy embellishments offer some liveliness absent from the somber colors.
Mystery, magnetism, and marzipan
Scottish singer Emma Bryson travels to London determined to fulfill a deathbed promise to her mother to sing for the Queen. Her debut at a fashionable salon starts brilliantly but ends in disaster when the usually poised Emma tumbles backwards and lands on the champagne-buffed boots of Philip Henry Jamison, the earl of Blackbourne and London's most eligible bachelor.
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