3-028-305 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris fashions for March, 1870. '1. Toilette de soirée of green gaze de Chambery, the under jupe trimmed...with perpendicular biais of green satin, bordered on each side with white blonde lace...The low corsage is trimmed at the upper part with bouillonnées of lace...The coiffure is composed of a wreath of tea-roses. 2. Robe à traine of dahlia-coloured satin, the corsage basquine which falls square in front, and having a plaited postilion behind, is edged with velvet...bordered with deep lace. The velvet revers are partially veiled with black lace; and loose sleeves, flounced at the ends, are trimmed with lace and velvet to match the corsage...3. Robe de chambre in grey taffeta, trimmed with violet velvet, and having cascades of white lace falling from the top of the corsage to the bottom of the skirt. The large open sleeves, which terminate in a point, are trimmed with lace...4. Robe à traine of maize-coloured satin, having a flounce at the bottom of the jupe partially covered with another deeper flounce with lace heading...The high corsage is trimmed with lace to simulate a berthe, and the sleeves terminate in black lace flounces. The chapeau of black velvet has a tulle diadem of lace in front and a large white rose at the side'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.