Featured Plates: 1845-08 LCF3-4 & 5-6
Two of four fashion plates from the Ladies Cabinet of Fashion for August of 1845. Descriptions are from pages 134 and 135 of the magazine.
MORNING CONCERT DRESS.
No. 3. — Muslin robe peignoir lined with pink gros de naples; the corsage made quite np to the throat with a small falling collar, which is edged with lace, is embroidered in feather stitch to the-waist. Long tight sleeves with close mancheron, and cuffs trimmed with lace. An embroidered montant descends from the waist, and is trimmed down the centre with nouds of pink ribbon; the sides and back of the border are embroidered; the hair is disposed in bands; a white tulle calotte is placed at the back of the head; a tuft of roses without foliage at each ear completes the coiffure.
EVENING DRESS.
No. 4. — Organdy robe, spotted in a light pattern; a low corsage descending en V over a lace guimpe; it is made with a pointed lappel cleft on each shoulder. Short tight sleeve, finished with two double biais set on full; the skirt is trimmed high with two very deep flounces; the hair is dressed in a profusion of ringlets at the sides and a full knot at the back of the head.
PUBLIC PROMENADE DRESS.
No.5. — Shaded silk robe; the corsage, high at the back and moderately open on the bosom, is trimmed with a pelerine lappel of two falls, festooned round the edges and forming a cœur; the sleeve is rather more than a three-quarter length, and partially open at the bottom. Cambric under sleeve and habit shirt. The skirt is trimmed with two festooned flounces; white crape capote, a close shape trimmed with white ribbon, and a half wreath of flowers.
No. 6. — Plaided gros de naples robe; a high corsage and three-quarter length sleeve over a cambric one. Muslin scarf lined with pink gros de naples, and trimmed with lace so disposed as to form a revers on the bust, and robings in, front. Blue poult de soie chapeau trimmed with blue ribbon, and crowned with a full white plume formed of the down of marabouts.
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1845-08 LCF3-4 & 1845-08 LCF5-6
