Paris Fashions for July - Opera Dress, 1850. 'The Opera Dress is of silk, with a straight upper dress, and three flounces on the cross; the body pointed, having a lace berthe, with five or six rows of lace of the like sort, but the width of which decreases at each row in approaching the point of the body'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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