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Title
Fashions, Autumn 1844
Alternative Title
Fashions for October 1844
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
Five women are depicted. The woman at the top left wears a light blue dress, white gloves, and has her hair in an elaborate bun. The dress is off the shoulder with short sleeves edged in white lace and a wide white lace collar. The woman at the top middle wears a green bonnet with a pink dress. The dress has a high, round neck with white lace and has pink ruffles around the shoulders, sleeves, and cuffs. The woman at the top right has her hair in an elaborate knotted bun with ringlets on the sides decorated with pink flowers. Her dress is blue, off the shoulder, and edged in white lace at the collar and the hems of the short sleeves. She wears gloves and a bracelet. The woman at the bottom left wears a white bonnet with a large plume, a green dress covered with a black mantelet. The woman at the bottom right wears a yellow bonnet with a lavender dress with layered capped sleeves and a layered skirt, trimmed with three rows of narrow black ribbon on hems, bodice, and sleeves.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
fpc00292.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fpc/id/287
Language
English
Subject
Women's clothing
Color in clothing
Hats
Hair ornaments
Lace and lace making
19th C costume
Bonnets (Hats)
Mantelets
Time Period
1840-1849
United Kingdom - Early Victorian, 1837-1860
American - Jacksonian, 1824-1850
French - July Monarchy, 1830-1848
Source
Fashion Plate, engraving (print), colored, 6.25 x 9.5 inches; Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library, Macpherson Collection, Costume Plates of Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby, box 6
Relation
Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/fpc

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