Regency Fashion: Evening and Morning Dress (1815)

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FASHIONS FOR LADIES PLATE 18 EVENING DRESS WHITE satin petticoat richly ornamented at the feet with white satin trimming a deep flounce of blond lace gathered full into a narrow heading of corresponding trimming and tastefully laid on in festoons above the lower border body white satin plain fronts open to a point in the centre of the waist the back to correspond very narrow on the shoulder and the neck exposed the body trimmed entirely round the top with a full plaiting of blond lace short fuli sleeves ornamented with satin trimming corresponding with the bottom of the dress the waist very short Hat composed of white satin narrow turban front oruamented with a full plume of ostrich feathers Necklace and cross of satin bead or pearl ear drops and armlets to correspond Grecian scarf or shawl a pale buff colour embroidered with shaded morone silk in Grecian characters and fancifully disposed on the figure

clocks Slippers of buff satin or kid trimmed with silver White gloves of French kid drawn over the elbow Fan of carved ivory or sandal wood Plain silk stockings with laced négligé of demi length is confined at the top by a narrow collar or gathered into a Vandyke ruff and is worn with a coloured silk handkerchief tied carelessly round the neck and is fastened down the PLATE 19 MORNING DRESS front with bows and tassels AA loose robe of fine cambric or mob cap composed of net and worked jaconot muslin over a petti Brussels lace decorated with a coat of the same flounced with cluster of flowers and bows of French trimming long full sleeve satin ribbon Hair curled in the confined at the wrist with treble neck Slippers or sandals of palę drawings and ornamented with cor tan coloured kid tan coloured kid Gloves en suite responding trimming The robe or

The designs and descriptions appeared in the April 1815 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.

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