Paris fashions for September, 1862. 'Fig. 1. Dress for a Morning Visit. Dark slate-coloured silk flounce is composed of a black silk serves likewise for the trimming of the large open sleeves lined with white silk. Slate-coloured bonnet, ornamented with a long feather of the same colour, and provided with a crimson bavolet, black silk strings, and a linen collar, à la Parisienne. Fig. 2. Dress for an Evening Party. Robe of white [with] a narrow fluted flounce, surmounted by seven rows of black velvet, above which is a tarlatan drapery,
Paris fashions for September, 1862. 'Fig. 1. Dress for a Morning Visit. Dark slate-coloured silk flounce is composed of a black silk serves likewise for the trimming of the large open sleeves lined with white silk. Slate-coloured bonnet, ornamented with a long feather of the same colour, and provided with a crimson bavolet, black silk strings, and a linen collar, à la Parisienne. Fig. 2. Dress for an Evening Party. Robe of white [with] a narrow fluted flounce, surmounted by seven rows of black velvet, above which is a tarlatan drapery, supported by black velvet agrafes. Very ample sleeves, terminating by a tight-fitting cuff, ornamented with stripe of narrow velvet. The pelerine is of black headdress is composed of a garland of roses and rose-leaves placed immediately above the back hair, from which depends a black rolling feather. Fig. 3. Walking Dress. Plain violet silk dress. The of a violet silk cape with braided collar, and the base, to which is attached a black lace trimming equal in depth to that of the cape. White straw bonnet, decorated with two tufts of flowers and black lace, and provided with a double bavolet, Parisian collar'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.
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