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Five women stand in an elegant room. The woman on the left is wearing a grey bonnet trimmed with a light blue plume, tied beneath her chin with blue ribbons. She is wearing a high-collared, long-sleeved, light blue dress with red bows as trimming. The bodice has small buttons at the center front, and red double bows diagonally from the center front across to her right hip. The sleeves have a band of patterned trim that matches the border print used for the skirt. The design is a series of graduated stylized circles of red, white, and medium blue, over a light blue ground. The underskirt has two wide tiers, and the overskirt is draped asymmetrically to the right hip. She wears white gloves. The second woman is wearing a high-collared, long-sleeved, maroon brocade dress trimmed with bands of black satin. White ruffles edge the collar and cuffs, black satin trims the cuffs, and black satin lapels reach to the waist. Black satin forms a belt and edges the overskirt at the side slit ending in a square join at the hem, creating an Oriental feel to the dress. Elaborate gold cords fasten at the waist and across the slit skirt in two places near knee level. The underskirt is also maroon brocade. The woman in the center is wearing a high-collared, three-quarter sleeved white dress with a yellow floral pattern. The collar, overskirt, and sleeves are edged with a narrow ruffle of white eyelet. The neck has a medium gray ribbon surrounding it, tied in a bow at the left, and matching ribbons and bows adorn the sleeves. The bodice has a center section of gathered vertical fullness. The overskirt has two tiers gathered up at the center front, and poufed at the back. The underskirt has wide vertical box pleats that gather in at the hem, where three tiers of white lace finish the skirt. She wears flowers in her hair, white gloves and shoes, and two gold bangle bracelets, and she holds a wrapped formal bouquet in her left hand. The woman second from the right is wearing a grey hat with brown plumes and feathers. Her dress is gray with brown velvet cuffs and collar, and is styled as a coat dress with brown frog fastenings down the center front from bust to hem. There are white ruffles at the neck and cuffs; she wears tan gloves, and small earrings. The frogs are each looped at the right side and have a button or knot fastening on the left side. The jacket ends at the hip, and has long narrow sleeves with a slight fullness at the shoulder. The skirt has vertical knife pleats.The woman on the right is wearing a black hat that turns down at the sides decorated with black plumes. Her dress is visible only at the hem of the skirt and is gray with a netting or spot pattern. Over the dress she wears an elaborate black coat, with black lace ruffles at the the hem, the neckline, and the double ruffles at the cuffs of the mid length sleeves. Black satin ribbon trims the front, and she wears cream gloves, and small round pendant earrings.
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