Regency Fashion: Opera, Evening, and Ball Dresses (1828)

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Records of the Beau Monde FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY 1828 EXPLANATION OF THE PRINTS OF THE FASHIONS OPERA DRESS gathered full across with the fullness confined up the centre of the bust by a narrow double rouleau The sleeves are short plain and very full and are con fined round the arm by a narrow band of green or blue satin and the waist is en circled by a ribbon of the same tint The hair is arranged in curls round the face over which is a béret of blue or green bows of one of these colours in chequers on a white ground ornament this head dress under the brim next the hair where is also placed on the right side near the centre of the forehead a bird of Paradise plume another is placed over the beret on the summit of the head and waves gracefully over the left side The ear pendants are short round and of fine gold A DRESS of white satin trimmed with two rows of ornaments representing rosaces formed of satin rouleaux each row divided by a rouleau across the skirt and another rouleau concealing the hem next the shoe The sleeves long and fit ting almost close to the smaller part of the arm are confined at the wrists with very broad gold bracelets fastened by a cameo head set round with rubies The hair arranged à la Madonna with a ban deau of pearls crossed obliquely over the left side of the tresses in front on the right is a full cluster of curls forming a bow and so elevated as to appear like an orna ment on the turban which is of celestial blue and silver lama gauze Over the dress is worn a cloak of Parma violet colour ed velvet trimmed with chinchilla form ing a very broad border round the bottom of the cloak and down each side of the front A Russian mantelet cape of plain velvet falls as low as the elbow and over that is a pelerine cape entirely of chinchilla This superb mantle ties in front of the throat from two antique medallion orna ments with rich silk cordon terminating by large tassels which depend as low as the knee The ear rings are not pendant but are composed of clusters of rubies EVENING DRESS EVENING DRESS A DRESS of pink satin trimmed with a broad puckering of tulle or gauze round the border of the skirt on which are laid pink satin leaves edged round with a narrow black rouleau Body made plain and low round the tucker part of the dress is a row of Spanish points edged with a quilling of white blond or tulle Head dress formed of long puffs of gauze of saffron colour and white gossamer aigrettes Ear rings and necklace of pearls the latter elegantly set in delicate festoons and in front of the hair is a superb jewel A DRESS of white taffety with two full puckerings round the border in distinctlery ornament in the diadem style con rows these are of tulle and over them are laid in bias rouleaux of satin of the colour of the young holly leaf or of a bright cerulean blue according to fancy these ornaments are headed by a rouleau of the same colour and by a row of clo chettes reversed which are formed also of narrow rouleaux The body is finished in front with fichu robings which are edged with a double range of narrow rouleaux of the same colour as those on the skirt and the stomacher part is sisting of large pearls surrounded by filla gree and finely wrought gold BALL DRESS A DRESS of painted Indian taffety with a full broad fluting of white tulle at the border crossed over in treillage work by rouleaux of white satin edged on one side with blue and yellow satin narrower rouleaux one very broad and wadded conceals the hem next the shoe The body is à la Circassienne and where the drapery across the bust is partially left open before it wraps over is a chemisette tucker of Japanese gauze edged with narrow blond The sleeves are short and very full rather confined in the middle by a row of diamonds the same as those formed by the treillage work on the fluted border The hair is arranged in full curls on each side the face with a bow on the summit formed of three puffs of hair which are very highly elevated At the base of this bow is a coronet ornament of white and gold enamel The ear pen dants are à l antique en girandoles and are composed of three drops in rubies the necklace is formed of three rows of pearls and rubies intermingled with three valuable drop rubies in the centre Brace lets of dark hair and cameos worn over the gloves


These plates and descriptions for several gowns appeared in the February 1828 issue of La Belle Assemblée.

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