3-021-282 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris fashions for March, 1869. 'Fig. 1. Evening dress à traine of pearl grey satin, with a tunic bordered with deep white lace...The corsage is bordered with lace, and is trimmed with a small rose on each shoulder...Fig. 2. Evening dress of primrose-coloured satin, with court train trimmed all round with four ruched flounces of tulle illusion...The tablier in front is bordered with two similar flounces, and the "paniers" and rounded ends of the ceinture with a single flounce...Fig. 3. Evening or ball dress, in pale blue satin, the skirt trimmed at the bottom with a deep lace flounce, surmounted by a coquillée. Over this skirt is worn a long tunic of white puffed tulle, bordered with a vandyked lace flounce, and having above it a bouffant of tulle...The low corsage, which is trimmed with puffed basques, is bordered at the top with a narrow puff of lace...and is ornamented with small festoons of lace falling on the breast...Fig. 4. Dinner robe à queue, of garnet-coloured satin...The upper skirt, bordered with a deep flounce, surmounted by a slashed biais, is raised and fastened behind with a large satin bow...At the back of the waist a larger bow is posed...A large rose, surrounded by green leaves, composes the coiffure'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.