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Title
French fashions, 1846
Alternative Title
Costumes Francais
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
Two women stand outside a tent in a field next to a table with food and cutlery on it. The woman on the left wears her hair in a braided bun and wears a tan and brown dress and blue gloves. Her pinstriped dress has a high collar, pointed waist, and a peplum. There is a green ribbon around the collar and brown buttons down the front of the dress. The dress has long narrow sleeves and is trimmed with two rows of narrow brown edging. The woman on the right wears a yellow straw bonnet, a white lace dress, a pink shawl and carries a closed blue parasol. Her bonnet is adorned with pink flowers, wheat sheaves, and yellow ribbon. Her dress has a narrow shirt collar and a two layered skirt. Around her waist is a pink sash with fringed ends and her pink shawl is also fringed.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
fpc00308.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fpc/id/311
Language
French
Subject
Women's clothing
Color in clothing
Hats
Shawls
Ribbons
Parasols
Stripes
Lace and lace making
Cutlery
19th C costume France
Bonnets (Hats)
Fringe
Time Period
1840-1849
French - July Monarchy, 1830-1848
Place
France
Source
Fashion Plate, engraving (print), colored, 7 x 10.75 inches; Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library, Macpherson Collection, Costume Plates of Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby, box 7

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