3-009-017 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris fashions for November, 1862. 'Fig. 1. Visiting Dress. Robe of plain mauve silk, trimmed with six triple-ringed passementerie ornaments on the skirt...Attached to each bottom ring of the passementerie is a plaited ornament in blue velvet, made to fall over the ruching. The entire dress is of the so-called paletot form - that is to say, seamless at the waist, and, consequently, without waistband. The outline of the open sleeve is trimmed with...velvet ruching...Blue crape bonnet, with feathers and black aigrette. Fig. 2. Walking Dress. Robe of black moire antique. The principal feature...is the Lalla Rookh manteau...composed of Vienna cloth ornamented with three wide guipures...the edge of the cloak is ruched narrowly with its own material, but behind the ruching there is a small band of guipure. Brown velvet bonnet, trimmed with large tuft of pansies and lace. Of the two millinery Illustrations...the smaller represents a very pretty and quite new square pelerine in tulle bouillonné and narrow strips of black velvet, with lace collar and edging. The large Illustration is the exact reproduction of a corsage in muslin bouillonné, trimmed with black lace insertion, edged in its turn, with very narrow black lace; black velvet waistband'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.