Regency Fashion: Morning and Evening Dress (1812)

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These plates and description appeared in the May 1812 issue of The Lady’s Monthly Museum.


The Mirror of Fashion FOR MAY 1812 The Dresses invented by Mrs Osgood of Lower Brook Street WE promised last month that this department of our Museum should rise in the scale of merit how far we have fulfilled that promise the public have now an opportunity of judging We wish not to raise our own work by depreciating others but we dare rival publications of this nature to produce better executed figures than our own more correct fashions we are certain were never submitted to the public eye Morning Dress A white muslin gown with a rich lace or worked front over which is a négligé pelisse of azure blue sarsnet lined with white silk made low in the back the pelisse is trimmed with white fringe bonnet of white chip with a light blue feather the hair dressed full on one side and shoes of blue drop ear rings of coral gloves of York tan Evening Dress A real Andalusian dress formed of a bodice of pink or rose coloured velvet with a puff sleeve of white satin the rest of the dress being of the same material and edged at bottom à la Vandyke and ornamented with tab fringe the bodice is terminated in a jacket behind and edged with the same fringe as the dress the stomacher crossed with white lacing or braid fastened at each lacing with a diamond or paste button ridicule of rose or pink coloured velvet white gloves and shoes of white with the quarters the colour of the bodice ear rings of plain peark The Sévigné curl is the most predominant fashion for the head dress General Remarks The ridicule is no longer worn except at the evening party and the demi botte with gold fringe is nearly exploded from its inconvenience it catches at the dress and causes the leg to be shewn in an indecorous and inelegant manner

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