Regency Fashion: Danish Full Dress and Parisian Ball Dress (1819)

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These gowns appeared in the July 1819 issue of La Belle Assemblée.

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST 1819 EXPLANATION OF THE PRINTS OP FASHION No 1 Danish Full DRESS AS WORN AT season particularly in a summer so precose The Prince Regent's Fancy Ball as the present The prorogation of parSuperb petticoat of white net richly em Jiament however will now no doubt bossed with gold figures with border of deprive the capital of the presence of those gold flowers over a white slip of gros de illustrious fair ones who ranked foremost Naples Tunic robe of geranium coloured amongst the stars of fashion and the eletaffety trimmed with gold with white gant entertainment given by our beloved satin long sleeves ornamented in stripes to Regent and to which we shall dedicate a correspond Zealand tippet of geranium particular portion of these pages as far as red and green in squares edged with gold relates to the different costumes may be the green the colour of the bright blossomed regarded as the splendid finale to every geranium foliage Copenhagen hat of other London fète in high life till the enblack and geranium gros de Naples with suing winter drooping plumes of white ostrich feathers Before we proceed to these descriptions and an aigrette of brilliants Geranium we shall give a few cursory remarks on the satin shoes general fashions likely to be most prevalent No 2 PARISIAN BALL DRESS during the summer recess For walking or for the carriage pelisses Frock of white figured gauze over a wbite satin slip ornamented with two rows and spencers of gros de Naples or Pelian satin are likely to be most in favour A of crape cheveux de frieze the bust ornamented by a broad lace the body and most elegant spencer has lately been sleeves of white satin and finished by Mrs Bell of spotted gros decrape the sleeves slashed a l Espagnole The hair full dressed June The mancherons at the top of the Naples the colour the full blown rose in with two bandeaux of pearls intermingled sleeves are the most novel and beautiful on the summit with large full blown roses Necklace formed of two rows of Oriental that can be conceived they are detached pearls White crape fan spangled with kind of puckers representing folded folisilver White kid slippers and white kid age and the bust is trimmed to correspond Another spencer of gloves gossamer or Pelian satin is equally beautiful it is of a pale primrose colour and is elegantly trimmed GENERAL OBSERVATIONS with violet coloured satin Amongst the newly invented bats is one FASHIONS AND DRESS of the fancy kind for the ancient English Seldom has an instance before occurred costume called the Digby antique hat it of the noble and wealthy prolonging their is of black satin trimmed with ruby satin stay in a crowded metropolis so late in the il ribbon with a poiuted crown Carriage ON
hats are of white satin with white feathers of spotted silk with red and white roses another carriage hat is of wave silk of rose colour with white feathers transparent net bonnets are also much in vogue for the carriage and public walks and are generally ornamented with bunches of roses Walking hats and bonnets are of fine Leghorn and are sometimes crown ed with harvest nosegays consisting ears corn flowers and wild poppies The dresses are chiefly of fine muslin cambric for morning dresses and muslin for half dress the former are of the wrap kind the frocks for half dress are made partially high and have a broad bouilloné kiud of tuck round the bust througla which bouilloné tuck is run a loured ribbon and the long sleeve turns at the hand with a pointed satin of the same colour as the ribbon Summer ball dresses are of white gauze with co sprigs the sleeves short slashed at the top d l Espagnole and the fastened with an elegant kind of to other points turned back from the end of the short sleeve A superb bordering of narrow striped gauze in bias with broad quillings of gas lace finishes this dress The new head dresses consist of an half dress cornette of net with a Henri Quatre of white satin finished by a bouquet of a full blown June rose lilies of the val and privet The Parisian cap à la Paysanne is much in request at our summer theatres it is of fine pet and white satin with a tassel of white beads on the left a quilling of blond next the face finishes this simple head dress For evenwith ing dress the Elsineur cap of white satin and fine net is a very elegant head dress and when crowned with a plume of ostrich feathers differs but little from the Copen hagen hat given in our Print of the Danish costume


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