2-914-123 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris Fashions for the New Year, 1854. 'Girl's Dress. Taffetas bonnet, trimmed simply with ribbons of the same; tour de cou of ermine; mantelet of black or violet velvet, trimmed with simple silk braid. Robe without flounces, of poult de soie; pearl grey percale trousers, bordered with English embroidery, interspersed with broderie en plumets. Bonnet of rose-coloured velours épinglé; robe of plain Irish poplin; mantelet a basques of the same: the mantelet is ornamented with black velvet, and the robe with black fringe, which encircles the corsage, and descends in four rows in front'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.