Featured Plate: 1839-05 BEA4
Fashion plate 4 from The Beau Monde for May 1839, unsigned.
Description from page 66 & 67 via the Bodelain Libraries:
Figure 1. — Promenade Dress. — Satin dress, high mounting corsage with embroidered chemisette, exhibited in front by the cut of the dress at the bust; the sleeves in bouffans at the top, and fall thence to the dress; the skirt very full, having down the front ornaments in velvet, figuring tablier, with parallel pieces crossing down the whole extent. The velvet hat ornamented with a bouquet.
Figure 2. — Carriage Dress. — Levantine dress, the corsage fitting accurately to the shape, having a deep blond edging; the sleeves full, with a portion slightly gathered at top; the skirt ample, and having a row of velvet ornaments down the front. Satin hat and feathers.
Figure 2 — Walking Dress. — Organdi dress, cut, as to the corsage, in a manner resembling the previously described one, but rather lower in the bust; the sleeve having in the upper part bouffans rather close to the arm, the middle part wide and full, the lower part of the skirt having two rows of bouillons entirely surrounding it near to the termination. Gros de Tour Hat with satin ornaments.
Figure 4. — Evening Dress. — Crape tunic, the corsage deep with a slight drapery in front, terminating to a point, and a deep lace mantilla in addition; a bordering of the same proceeds down the front in a double row, widening materially at the lower part. Marabaut feathers ornament the corners. The hair embellished with feathers.
The First Half Figure, composed of batiste, is close fitting in the corsage, the epaulette gathered with bouffans and wide thence to the wrist.
The Second Half Figure is a representation of the back view of the costume immediately beneath it.
The capotes of satin and figured silk have a somewhat greater amplitude in the brim than most of those already described. The ornaments are small bouquets.
The caps in tulle and batiste are decoroted [sic] with small bouquets and paradise feathers, as well as satin pipings, which give a desirable variety.
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