A bride, a second woman, and a little girl prepare for an autumn wedding as they model their French fashions for the October, 1866 edition of Moniteur de la Mode. The bride wears a white gown with a very full bell skirt. The bodice has a vertical...
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 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...
Bows (Ribbon work); Clothing and dress; Coats; Color in clothing; Cuffs (Clothing); Dresses; Gloves; Lace and lace making; Neckwear; Ribbons; Ruff; Shoes; Women's clothing; Women's hats; Women's shoes; Boulders
A woman poses in a promenade dress from 1828. The dress is black and gray with long, wide, gathered sleeves. She has a white ruff around her neck and a gray collar. Her cuffs, bodice, and skirt of the dress are all black. The sleeves, the back of...
Clothing and dress; Dresses; Flowers; Gloves; Lace and lace making; Necklaces; Scarves; Women's clothing; Bodices
A woman stands in profile view, modeling a pink evening gown with double layered, flowered lace trimmed hem. The bodice is also made of floral lace, with a pink over layer lightly draped at the bust. At the low curved neckline is a twisted drape of...
Clothing and dress; Women's clothing; Dresses; Color in clothing; Bows (Ribbon work); Flowers; Women's shoes; Women's hats; Ribbons; Bodices; Hosiery; Sleeves
A woman wears a ballet costume of a country girl. She wears an above ankle length yellow dress with blue ribbon detailing all over the skirt and sleeves. The bodice is laced with pink ribbon up the front and a small corsage of blue and pink flowers...
A young woman with red-blond hair wears a yellow suit trimmed in black with a tucked, lace trimmed pink blouse. This transitional outfit combines the flowers and lace popular in the Victorian era with the angularity of approaching modernist styles....
Five women stand in an elegant room. The woman on the left is wearing a high-collared, black and gray pinstripe hip length jacket in a masculine style, with a standing collar, wide lapels, and gold buttons at the front and on the cuffs. The jacket...
In a Barcelona neoclassical park setting, a young woman and six girls play jump rope. Spain in the 1880s enjoyed economic prosperity after the Restoration of the Spanish Crown (1875), and these girls appear to reflect that prosperity. From the...
Sitting together in a garden is a family of five children. The youngest boy on the left wears a gray outfit in a masculine style. His skirt is a kilt, pleated on the sides and back. Over this he wears a loose gray waistcoat and coat with wide...
Six adolescents and girls, and one boy, stand by a fountain in a park in their French fashions for 1888. The first girl on the left wears a deep blue dress with dark blue velvet-trimmed cuffs over a brown pleated skirt, of which we see only the...
The woman on the left wears a blue evening gown with a low, sweetheart neckline and short, puffed sleeves. Lacy white ruffles extend over the sleeves from the shoulders. Sheer lace over-sleeves drape loosely from the woman's shoulders to her...
The woman wears a blue, off-the-shoulder dress with a closely fitted, tapering bodice and full skirts. The straight neck is edged with a wide band of white lace with a pale blue bow at the center, over the bust. The sleeves are tiered and puffed,...
Three women and two children model their circa 1858 fashions outdoors. Trees, a lake, and a man with two horses are in the background. The woman in the center wears a yellow wide skirted dress with elaborate decorations of white horizontal braiding...
Two women are in a room decorated with two framed pictures, porcelain pieces, and two Oriental fans. The woman on the left is wearing a high-collared deep blue dress trimmed with medium blue, red and gold plaid at the center front. Her underskirt...
Two women are standing at the top of the stairs in an elegant hallway with striped wall paper. On the left is part of a long window with diamond patterned glass and a curved top, with a white column setting it off. On the right is an elegant drape,...
Bodices; Bows (Ribbon work); Bracelets; Caps (Headgear); Carpets; Chairs; Clothing and dress; Color in clothing; Draperies; Dresses; Fans; Flowers; Gloves; Gold jewelry; Lace and lace making; Leaves; Shawls; Stripes; Women's clothing; Handkerchiefs
Two women in a parlor. The woman on the left is seated in an ornate wooden chair with deep red upholstery. She wears a lace cap with maroon bows over her ringlets. Around her shoulders is a long white shawl with intricate embroidery and fringed...
Benches; Bracelets; Color in clothing; Dresses; Fans; Dogs; Gloves; Headgear; Lace and lace making; Necklaces; Neckwear; Shoes; Sleeves; Veils; Women's clothing; Women's shoes
Two women in London fashionable full dress. The woman on left has her back toward the viewer and wears a large, square, gold and red ornament in her hair and a white band around her head. She wears a necklace and light yellow gloves. Her white,...
Two women in Parisian wedding fashions. The woman on the left is seated with her back to the viewers, but her face is visible in profile. Her hair is styled in an updo and is decorated with several kinds of white flowers with green leaves. A sheer,...
Belt buckles; Belts (Clothing); Bodices; Bows (Ribbon work); Carpets; Clothing and dress; Cameos; Collars; Color in clothing; Dresses; Feathers; Flowers; Gloves; Gold jewelry; Hair ornaments; Leaves; Lace and lace making; Necklaces; Netting;...
Two women pose, one in a walking dress, the other in a ball dress from 1831. The woman on the left wears a lime green cloak with a black collar folded over. Underneath she wears a lavender dress with a belt and a white ruff with three rows of lace...
