3-011-511 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris fashions for December, 1862. 'Fig. 1. Evening Dress. Robe of stout corded apple-green taffety...with a guipure on a white ground; the sleeves are also trimmed with a similar transparent guipure. Corsage high-necked, long-waisted, and fastened in front with plain green velvet buttons. Lawn undersleeves, with lace cuffs and narrow lace col Parisien. Violet velvet chapeau...Fig. 2. Toilet for a Little Girl. White poplin frock, ornamented on the skirt with two rows of ruching, over the middle of each of which a stripe of narrow rose-coloured satin ribbon is attached...Pink silk waistband à l'Anglaise. Undersleeves and chemisette of white muslin. Pink velvet hat...Fig. 3. Walking Dress. Robe of light-brown reps, the edge of the skirt trimmed merely with a very narrow ruching. The principal feature of this dress is the Mantelet Céline...This rich and graceful mantelet is composed of black velvet trimmed with a wide guipure surmounted by passementerie and edged with a narrow open ruching known by the name of the ruche solferino...Black velvet bonnet, with bavolet and outside trimming of the same material; tour-de-tete of white blond, surmounted by an ornament composed of black velvet ribbon and little flowers intermixed. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.