3-021-284 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris fashions for May, 1869. 'Fig. 1. Toilette de Promenade. Robe of fine grey mohair...with deep flounce surmounted by a ruche in taffeta......at the back of the mantle a large bow is fixed. Chapeau of white tulle with...crimson roses upon puffs of lace...Fig. 2. Dinner or evening dress of...taffeta. The under jupe...with a deep pinked flounce, surmounted by a double ruche pinked to correspond. The upper skirt...[is] trimmed at the bottom and the sides with pinked flounces and ruches...The corsage is low...A satin sash with large bow and long biassed ends completes the costume...Fig. 3. Dinner dress of blue taffeta...with seven small gathered flounces...Coiffure of Easter daisies. Fig. 4. Toilette de Promenade...Chapeau of tulle with a tall diadéme of flowers...a lace bavolet falls over the chignon. Fig. 5. Toilette de Promenade. Robe of vert-vert poult de soie, with short train. Casaque of black faye, the lace-trimmed skirts of which are...looped up behind under a long fan-shaped lappel of black lace, that hangs from the deep black lace collar, and is slightly gathered in here and there by satin bows. The sleeves, which are looser than usual, are trimmed with deep lace cuffs. Chapeau of crepe, trimmed with variegated white and red pinks'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.