3-021-280 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris fashions for June, 1869. 'Fig. 1. Costume Lavallière, in pale almond-coloured mohair, with the short under jupe trimmed with a plaited flounce of rich brown silk...The second jupe, which has a bouffant, is bordered by a narrow flounce...and over this falls a third short skirt, festooned at the sides, where hang small pointed basques, terminating the tight casaque, which is ornamented behind with a bow...The bonnet, of black lace, has a high fronton...Fig. 2. Morning robe, of white and blue striped silk, the bottom of the skirt...bordered with lilac satin. The form of the jacket...with its short cape and large lappels, is something peculiar...Fig. 3. Jupe à traine of pink poult de soie. Corsage of grey taffeta, cut low and square...Bows of grey taffeta...at the wrist on each side...Fig. 4. Costume complet of green poult de soie shot with white; the under jupe trimmed with a festooned flounce edged at the top with plaited ribbon fastened with bows...The high corsage has pointed basques bordered with flounces at the sides, and the long square-shaped basque in front is ornamented with a series of bows...The chapeau of white lace, which is trimmed with lilies of the valley...is fastened with a bow of green ribbon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.