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Title
Dress with apron, 1801
Alternative Title
1801
Publication Information
Ella Strong Denison Library
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/
Description
A woman wears an empire waist dress of black fabric patterned with a small yellow and white design. Her sleeves are tight and end at the elbow. She wears a white apron tied below the bust and a soft pink and white plaid kerchief wrapped around her shoulders and tucked under the apron. She wears white stockings and flat, pointed black slippers. Her bonnet is white with a deep pink ribbon around the crown and a bow in the back. She wears dangling gold earrings and a black ribbon choker around her neck. The woman balances an unknown object covered with a printed yellow cloth trimmed in orange on her left hip. The image has been mounted and cropped by the donor.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
fpc00053.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fpc/id/51
Subject
Bows (Ribbon work)
Clothing and dress
Dresses
Earrings
Hosiery
Kerchiefs
Women's clothing
Women's hats
Women's shoes
Aprons
Stripes
Bonnets (Hats)
Chokers
Stockings
19th C costume
Time Period
1800-1809
United Kingdom - Regency, 1795-1837
French - Consulate, 1799-1804
American - Jeffersonian, 1800-1824
Source
Fashion plate, engraving (print), colored, 10.25 x 13.375 inches; Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library, Macpherson Collection, Costume Plates of Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby, box 2
Relation
Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/fpc

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