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Title
French fashions, Autumn 1858
Alternative Title
Journal des Jeunes Personnes
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 and a little girl are standing outside. The woman on the left carries a parasol in her right hand. She wears a white bonnet with purple flowers. Her dress has a wide square neck and long bell sleeves. Outlining her sleeves, collar and top tier of her dress are wide purple ribbons with bows. Her dress is a light lavender with purple polka dots. She wears a white blouse with a gathered neck and long full sleeves gathered at the wrists. She wears white gloves. The little girl wears her hair dressed back off her face and a pink dress. Her dress has three quarter length sleeves. There is ruffle outlining her sleeves and bottom of the first tier of her skirt. The skirt ends just below the knee. She wears black lace mitts and brown ankle boots. Her white blouse has elbow length pleated open sleeves, and she wears white lace-trimmed knickers and white stockings. The woman on the right wears a white lace bonnet with wide green ribbons. Her dress is brown Tattersall plaid with maroon buttons and maroon trimming down her bodice. She covers her dress with a black lace shawl and holds a green parasol closed in her right hand.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
fpc00373.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fpc/id/368
Language
French
Subject
Women's clothing
Girls' clothing
Parasols
Dresses
Ribbons
Hats
Boots
Gloves
Shawls
Lace and lace making
Buttons
19th C costume France
Bonnets (Hats)
Dots
Ruffle
Time Period
1850-1859
French - Second Empire, 1852-1870
Place
France
Source
Fashion Plate, engraving (print), colored, 6.75 x 10.375 inches; Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library, Macpherson Collection, Costume Plates of Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby, box 8
Relation
Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/fpc

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