Regency Fashion: Opera and Walking Dress (1819)

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FASHIONS FOR MARCH 1819 EXPLANATION OF THE PRINTS OF FASHION FRENCH this period nothing is reckoned so elegant No 1 Opera Costume for the walking costume as the warm WitzPelisse of white satin trimmed with choura pelisse this article of dress is no swansdown and left open at the throat longer of velvet but of a richly spotted Dress hat of white satin surmounted by a silk and generally of a fine deep auricular superb plume of ostrich feathers Sash of colour between a mulberry and a chocobroad satin ribband tied behiod white late these superb envelopes to the female form are lined with white sarsnet and trimsatin slippers and white kid gloves med all round with real ermine The OtaENGLISH heitan pelisse a rare and rich article still No 2 WALKING DRESS maintains its admired station amongst those Round dress of muslin richly though of highest rank lightly embroidered in open spots round The bridal spencer of white Armozeen the border Spencer of ethereal blue Terry down the front with Brandenbourgs has silk with satin mancherons and finished velvet with bonnet of the same material with a splendid group of plumes of etherial just issued from the tasteful repository of Mrs Bell for the hymeneal ceremony of a blue lady of distinction The bonnet worn with NB We beg leave to correct a material misit is elegantly chaste and striking it is of take made in the Embellishments of Fashion in our last Number The Ball Dress was not the white satin with transparent vandykes invention of Mro Bell as was erroneously marknear the edge of the brim which is termied nated by a double quilling of blond and the whole surmounted by two beautifully drooping ostrich feathers GENERAL OBSERVATIONS Spencers of Terry velvet over muslin and cambric dresses are reckoned most elegant FASHIONS AND DRESS for the promenade The bonnets still continue to be worn very large and the crowns The month of March especially in so low Black bonnets with bouquets and mild a season as the present may be re garlands of various coloured flowers are garded in its unequal changes as a kind yet worn but are not likely long to mainof gentleman usher to a yet more unequal tain their station the bonnet of black power worshipped under the name of Fa satin trimmed slightly d la Proserpina shion April and the more genial months with narrow rouleaux of scarlet satin is come after so rapidly that though the reckoned more elegant for walking and warm materials of winter are not totally the Terry velvet bonnet of royal blue sulaid aside at present yet the tints of hea perbly ornamented with a towering plume ven's azure and unclouded sky the bright of white feathers is esteemed the most apgreen of the verdant buds and every spring propriate carriage head dress for the morn like colour are eagerly adopted while on a ing ride as the barouches and barouchettes mild and summer like day the Indian mus begin now on a spriug like day to be left Jin dress or the snowy cambric take place open of the Merino cloth and poplin Morning dresses are made in the Circas When the rude breath of Boreas will sian wrap style they are of fine corded camhowever prevail as is frequeutly the case at Il bric and are trimmed with triple rows of ON
muslin set on full they are made only partially high at the bust and with them is worn a muslin fichu with a triple Hen rietta ruff each frill beantifully embroider ed in Moravian work or satin stitch For half dress we cannot forbear calling the attention of our fashionable readers to the new trimming lately invented and which we first saw at the Repository in St James's street of the Marchande de Modes to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent it is called the Corinthian trimming and is chiefly used for ornamenting the of dresses as flounces & c It is of fine clear lawn or Bengal muslin and is finished by scallops of a light novel and elegant kind of work not so heavy as em broidery but which affords equal diversity of effect Satins sarsnets and figured silks yet retain their station at the dinner and even ing party the new Opera robe is extremely graceful and becoming it is of etherial blue satin trimmed down the sides with velvet with blue silk embossed edges the sleeves are long and are of fine Det down which run stripes of blue satin ribband With this robe should be worn the Opera turban of white satin ornamento ed with puffs of etherial blue satin mingled with white and long drooping white feathers Ao undress cornette is remarkable for its novelty elegance and simplicity It is composed of fine net with embossed spots almost rising in tufts of lilac or light blue satin and is tastefully ornamented with Darrow brocaded ribband to correspond and finished round the face with three distinct rows of blond From this retired yet striking head dress we turn to the turban appropriate only to the tall and majestic beauty it is of Tyrian scarlet sarsnet and encircled by folds of silver gauze this splendid head dress is as may be well judged for evening par The chain gauze of a fine silky and shining texture in rich stripes of chain very close together is a light and beautiful article for ball dresses its trim ming should be fine blond interspersed with rouleaux of satin light wreaths of artificial flowers or embossments of white on satin of some light spring co
lour A corsage of satin is indispeusable with these dresses The favourite colours are etherial blue Tyrian scarlet emerald green and lilac

Plates and descriptions  appeared in the February 1819 issue of La Belle Assemblee.

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