Fashionable woman in Madras check dress, 1800. She wears a toquet cap with lappets, and a long-sleeve dress in Indian check cotton from Madras (now Chennai). She carries a drawstring reticule or ridicule bag. Toquet a Pointes. Robe de Madras. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1800. The illustrations in volume 4 were by Carle Vernet, Bosio, Dutailly and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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