Two women and a young girl model their French fashions for 1831. The woman in the center wears a white blouse with scalloped collar and yoke. The collar and yoke of the blouse have double layers of scallops, pinned at the throat with a oval gold...
Four adolescents and four children display their elegant French fashions for 1834. The first boy, who leans back against a neoclassical pedestal, wears white lace-trimmed pantalettes and a white blouse with a short ruffled collar. Over these, he...
A woman and a child stand with a young girl who seems to be dressed for her confirmation. The woman on the left wears a long full skirted skirt and jacket of blue satin. The skirt has six horizontal bands of ruched panels. More ruched bands edge...
A young woman and a girl visit with an older woman who sits on a park bench. The woman on the left wears a lavender dress with a long skirt with four ruffled tiers. The bodice is styled like a fichu with bold black ribbons crossing in front. The...
Two women and a girl stand in a well-appointed French parlor during France's Second Empire period. The woman in the center wears a blue dress with a three-tiered skirt and three-quarter sleeves. The dress is accented with bands and square motifs of...
A young women is seated at the piano forte, while her mother looks on, and a younger girl plays with her puppy in the parlor. Sitting in a purple chair, the young woman touches the open musics score, while she begins to play. She wears a white...
Boots; Bows (Ribbon work); Buildings; Clothing and dress; Coats; Collars; Cuffs (Clothing); Gloves; Hairstyles; Handkerchiefs; Hats; Men's clothing; Pleats (Sewing); Sailing ships; Seas and oceans; Shoes; Trees; Vests
Three men are conversing in a park that overlooks a seaport. The man on the left stands with his back to the viewer in order to show the back of his casually-fitted black lounge coat. He wears slim powder blue trousers and a white shirt with a...
A woman and two men have a conversation while standing in front of a large neoclassical structure. The two gentlemen are arm in arm. The woman wears a dark blue riding habit with a white collared blouse with a red cravat. The jacket has moderate...
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...
In this illustration of a Catholic family, a mother prepares her daughter for her First Communion while the girl's brother stands nearby. With one hand on a prie-dieu and the other holding her prayer book, the girl wears a white full skirted dress,...
Three women and a child model their summer fashions for the July issue of Moniteur de la Mode. The woman on the left wears clothing that suggests she is a servant of the woman at center, and indeed she holds the child as well as a paddle that...
Bows (Ribbon work); Clothing and dress; Coats; Color in clothing; Dresses; Earrings; Feathers; Flowers; Gloves; Hats; Headgear; Necklaces; Sleeves; Women's clothing; Women's hats; Women's shoes; Shoes
Three women in London dresses for April. The woman on the left stands facing the viewer with her head is in profile. She wears a white bonnet with two white feathers on top and white, oval earrings and a matching necklace. Her white, full-length...
two views, front and back, of Parisian men's fashions are displayed in this illustration for Petit Courrier des Dames. The more distant gentleman on the left wears a white shirt and very tall cravat, white waistcoat with four buttons, tan stirrup...
A woman in the foreground stands wearing a white dress with slim, ankle-length skirts, long sleeves, a high waist, and a high collar. The bodice is trimmed with lace and various white-on-white patterns. A small gold ball is pinned at her collar,...
