Regency Fashion: Walking and Public Promenade Dress (1819)

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FASHIONS FOR JUNE 1819 EXPLANATION OF THE PRINTS OF FASHION FRENCH tirely plain is much in favour for the pro No 1 WALKING DRESS menade as is also an emerald green Round dress of cambric with three pelisse of Gros de Naples trimmed with flounces of muslin richly embroidered shaded green shag silk in small languette Letting in of broad lace between each strips down each side each strip fastened flounce Spencer of rose coloured sarsnet down by a small green button Mrs Bell with bonnet to correspond lined with has just completed some spencers of an white and finished by a sprig of pink fox entire new kind their style is various gloves on the right side British ruff of and the most elegant that can be conceived fine clear muslin Rose coloured slippers 1 it is requisite however to see these and Florence gloves comfortable articles of out door costume to appreciate them properly at the same ENGLISH lime we shall attempt at giving a descripNo 2 Public Promenade Dress tion of those peculiarly adapted to summer Plain India muslin frock over a peach wear after describing her Persian or Brisatin blossom slip the frock elegantly tish Circassian pelisse of improved grosorpamented round the border with one de Naples so highly estimated by females lace and embroidery Spencer of muslin l of the first rank and fashion It is of a with short frill jacket trimmed to corresbeautiful lavender or asphodel lily colour pond with the dress Bohemian hat of and is richly trimmed with the same matepeach blossom satin and Ceres gauze with rial as the pelisse with Georgian straps a full bouquet of the same coloured flow forming an improved kind of languette orers to correspond Black satin slippers nament Over this is sometimes thrown Limerick gloves and emerald green pathe Circassian scarf of blush coloured satin rasol consisting of a very wide ribband trimmed with broad Mechlin lace It is needless to observe that this pelisse with its costly GENERAL OBSERVATIONS appendage is only fitted for the carriage Another elegant carriage costume is a FASHIONS AND DRESS spenser of fine India muslin trimmed with a profusion of Mechlin lace and a sprigged Should the present propitious weather petticoat of lilac taffety bordered with a continue we may look forward to many very broad Mechlin lace put ou strait A early departures into the country of those carriage pelisse also of royal purple sarswho compose the fashiouable world it is net trimmed with a rich white silk fancy however our part to describe the fashions trimming interspersed with white blond living as they rise and we therefore or lace is admirable for its superb appear hasten to present to our modish readers the ance and tasteful elegance Spencers of varied productions of taste and elegance fine cambric are finished round the bust which are just completed by the most with points d la Suisse which points are eminent of our Marchandes de Modes for composed of rich embroidery and fine lace the month of June generally the last in through these is run a broad coloured ribwhich Fashion chooses to prolong her stay bon to answer the colour of the petticoat in the present crowded metropolis when that is of silk satin or poplin the A cerulean blue satin spenser made en cuffs and mancherons of these spencers are ON
run finished to answer the trimming round the spotteil gas net and white satin finished bust by a full blown rose is an elegant headAmongst the novelties we have lately dress for those ladies who prefer an elegant seen at the Magazin de Modes in St simplicity to conspicuous finery Taste James's street patronized by her Royal and real elegance were never so completely Highness the Duchess of Kent is a very blended as in the Circassian tiara turban of becoming and beautiful carriage hat for gas net it is bound round the front with Hyde Park it is of the white Circassian pearls ending in a tassel aud finished by wave silk trimmed at the edge with gas a superb drooping white feather Jace and finished on the left side by a full Déjeuné caps are of very fine thread net bouquet of blown Provence roses there is and Mechliu lace the caul is partially a smartness and degagée air about this puckered with coloured ribbon article that we have not seen for some time through in stripes these caps are made in the hat style The bonnet also for the without ears but fasten close under the chin public promenade of the same material with ribbon A double row of fine lace deserves an equal share of praise it has a finishes them round the face separated by blond curtain border and round the crown a coloured ribbon French caps seem are small fancy flowers woven in a coronet almost universally worn for morning dress wreath The carriage bonnet formed of the most prominent article coloured satin Ceres net over lilac is also among the rare the lace part merely letting in except the novelties of the day it is finished at the quilling next the face The Princess Auedge by a quilling of the Ceres blond and gusta cornette of fine net and rouleaux crowned with an half coronet of double of cerulean blue satin surmounted by a lilac roses outspread and a profusion of full bouquet of light blue convolvulus is clemantis The pastoral carriage bonnet a favourite coiffeure for half dress as is a is chiefly woru for diurnal excursions into cap for divvers en famille composed of fine the country it is of five net and white blond or Mechlin lace interspersed with satin crowned with field flowers and white sațin and crowned by a full wreath finished at the edge with blond a spencer of clemantis is worn with this of fine muslim trimmed The Saxon ruff of fine net richly browith ribbou or fancy trimming to answer caded in silk at the edges is a beautiful the flowers on the bonnet or to correspond finish to a carriage pelisse or sarsnet high with the colour of the petticoat dress with a white satin pelisse and bonFor morning walks uo bonpet is more net the latter trimmed witli foliage of the elegant than bonnets of fine lodia muslin same and surmounted by a superb plume or cambric with letting in of lace or of white feathers the Saxon ruff is an elestripes of embroidery gant addition to such a costume for a youthMorning dresses are of fine plain Iudia ful bride returning her morning nuptial muslin with three flounces each edged visils with very narrow lace for dinner and The new ball dresses at Mrs Bell's reevening parties embroidered and clear pository of fashion are most superb and muslin frocks over piuk or blue satin slips tasteful a frock of white crape over white are in general favour to render these satin is extremely elegant the border is dresses more adapted for the evening a finished by a very full bouilloné confined corsage is often added the body of satin by pink satin languettes over which are with long sleeves of fine lace finished full blown roses with their stalks and down the outside of the arm in medal leaves laid in distinct rows in bias The Jions and in the midst of each medallion body corresponds with the skirt and the is affixed a large valuable pearl The sleeves are short and full the hair is beauOpera robe of purple poplin trimmed with tifully arranged in plaited braids interþroad white blond is much admired on woven with pearls and full blown roses our matronly ladies Another ball dress is yet more valuable Parisian cornettes crowned with a full though apparently more simple it is enblown tuberose still retain their station in tirely of very fine lace of a most splendid half dress and a dinner party cornette of Il fashion and is worn over a slip of pink
satin A third dress which is calculated either for evening parties or the ball room is of fine figured net with a full bordering of plaited gas lace and a brocade of chenille and small white beads over which is a row of stars formed of five long beads and which las a most superb effect



These designs and descriptions appeared in the May 1819 issue of La Belle Assemblée.

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