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Title
Fashions, Winter 1843
Alternative Title
Fashions for Nov. 1843.
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 on the top left wears a white lace headpiece with lace lappels decorated with pink flowers. Her dress is green with a white lace bodice trimmed with wide ruffles, and a lace collar with a pink rose at the center. The top middle woman wears a white lace cap with yellow flowers and ribbon. Her gown is light olive green with long sleeves and a white lace double collar with a small round brooch. The woman at the upper right wears a white lace cap trimmed with pink flowers and ribbon. Her light blue dress has a white lace bodice and collar with a pink bow, white under sleeves, and three-quarter over sleeves. She holds a small bouquet of pink flowers, and a white lace-edged handkerchief. The woman at the bottom left wears a pink bonnet with pink flowers and ribbon, with a ruffle at the back edge. Her light olive green dress has double rows of ruffles at the upper sleeves, the front edges of the over skirt and the hems of the three-quarter length bell sleeves. The woman on the bottom right wears a white bonnet with a white plume and pink bows inside the brim. Her dress is pink with two wide tiers of ruffles on the hem with a dark green mantelet worn over it, edged in two rows of tassels or pleated trimmings. She hold a white lace handkerchief.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
fpc00277.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fpc/id/272
Language
English
Subject
Women's clothing
Hats
Color in clothing
Lace and lace making
Flowers
19th C costume
Bonnets (Hats)
Mantelets
Ruffle
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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