Clothing and dress; Dresses; Gloves; Lace and lace making; Mirrors; Shoes; Tassels; Veils; Wedding costume; Women's clothing; Pleats (Sewing)
A bride stands with her back to the viewer in order to display the veil of her wedding costume. She stands in contrapposto with an oval mirror in her left hand, and her right hand on her hip. Her head is turned in profile as she inspects herself in...
A dark haired woman stands in a three-quarter pose with her head turned in profile to display her elaborate up-swept hairstyle. She wears a rose colored long gown with floral patterned sleeves, lower bodice, and insets on the skirt. The dress has a...
A family of four in their fashions for Philadelphia in 1837. The father wears gray trousers and a green frock coat fastened across the chest with military-style frogs and braiding. The coat has high lapels over a white ruffled collar, and black...
A group of ten young women and girls gather to model their English fashions for The Young Ladies' Journal of February 1888. Six of the models display coats, hats, and outerwear to brave the winter cold, while four of the models are dressed for the...
A man and woman stand outdoors near a green bench. The woman holds a copy of the magazine, Les Modes Parisienne, for which this illustration was made. The man wears slim fitting tan trousers that brush the top of his matching tan spats. He wears a...
A man, two women, and a girl are gathered in a park in Paris 1832. The individual outfits for this illustration are numbered one through four, from right to left. In outfit number 1, a woman sits on a green wooden bench and wears a long pink dress...
A mother and eight children display their Parisian fashions for December, 1903, while they gather for a party. The figure of the mother divides the composition in half with four younger children on her right and four adolescents on her left. The...
A mother and her two daughters pause under shady trees during their outdoor walk. The older daughter wears a lavender and pink horizontally striped dress with a heavily-fringed blue shawl with black stripes. The dress is slightly above ankle...
A serene river walk in the countryside provides the setting for two French girls in 1914. One child sits on a donkey and the second child reaches out to pick up the donkey's lead. The child on the left wears shorts and a matching loose shift. The...
A wide variety of English coat styles for men are shown in this illustration for the Gentleman's Magazine of September 1855. The entire party stands against a garden wall on which there are two neoclassical urns with rose bushes; tall trees form...
A woman and child lean against an Empire style table, displaying their London fashions for an evening party. The gowns they wear evoke the styles of ancient Greece and Rome with classical details such as the implied egg and dart pattern down the...
A woman in a walking dress for November 1822. A white, ruff collar protrudes from the collar of her lavender dress. A dark pink ruffle runs down the front of her dress from the collar to the hem. The Juliet style sleeves end with a ruffled cuff....
Bodices; Bows (Ribbon work); Bracelets; Clothing and dress; Color in clothing; Dresses; Earrings; Feathers; Gloves; Gold jewelry; Hats; Headgear; Hosiery; Necklaces; Neckwear; Pearls; Ribbons; Sashes (Clothing); Shoes; Sleeves; Women's clothing;...
A woman in evening dress for 1829. She wears a blue, wide brimmed hat with pink edging. White bows with red stripes decorate the hat as well as two bunches of large, pale yellow feathers. She wears teardrop-shaped, dangling, pearl earrings and a...
Women's clothing; Girls' clothing; Color in clothing; Hair ornaments; Jackets; Ribbons; Boots; Hats; Parasols; Stripes
A woman is depicted inside her house, leaning out the window to visit with a passing woman and child. The woman in the window wears multicolored striped ribbons and white flowers on her lace cap. Her dress is gray with long bell sleeves. Over her...
Women's clothing; Color in clothing; Dresses; Feathers; Lace and lace making; Necklaces; Fans; Bracelets; Bows (Ribbon work); Chairs
A woman is depicted standing next to a column and a red and gold chair. Her hair is pulled back softly from a center part, and dressed with white plumes and white lace. Her pink dress is off the shoulder and short sleeved. The bodice has a pointed...
A woman is standing in a long sleeved, high-collared rose red dress. A wide horizontal black band sets off the dress. In the bottom right hand corner is a black and white sketch of the back of the dress. The decorative elements on the dress consist...
Chairs; Hats; Women's clothing; Dresses; Gloves; Collars; Fur garments; Lace and lace making
A woman is standing in front of a yellow chair. She is wearing a vivid, high-collared dark red satin suit with gray fur edging. A back view of the suit appears in the upper right of the plate. The sleeves are snug with a slight fullness at the...
A woman is standing on the beach. She wears a high-collared red and tan striped dress with cherry designs. She is wearing a white gathered blouse with a very high collar and a ruff at the neck edged in red. The bodice of the dress has a scoop...
Dresses; Hats; Women's clothing; Lace and lace making; Collars
A woman is wearing a light green, high-collared, long-sleeved dress. A smaller back view of the same dress is pictured in the upper right corner of the plate. The sleeves are pleated at the shoulders to create puffed upper sleeves, and the lower...
A woman is wearing a light turquoise blue and rose pink dress. The skirt of the dress is gored in diagonal sections of blue and pink stripes to create alternating zigzags across the skirt. On the front seam are flowers on the pink stripes and dots...
