A woman and man wearing English and French fashions for 1803. The woman's outfit is labeled number "1." The woman stands in a three-quarter pose with her back to the viewer which allows us to see the back v neckline and hemline of the overdress....
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A woman wears a white court dress with an empire waist and short, puffed sleeves. The low, square neck is edged in pink ribbon and two rows of white lace. Three columns of pink chevrons decorate the bodice. White flowers, lace, green leaves, and...
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...
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...
Two women dresses for riding, one on horseback, are joined by the nanny bringing a child to meet them. The woman on the left rides side-saddle on a brown horse whose bridle is adorned with a pink tassel and whose mane is braided with a pink bow. A...
A man and a woman stand on green carpet or grass in their French fashions of 1809. The woman's outfit, labeled number "1," is viewed from the back. The woman wears a long cream colored empire waist gown with a scalloped hem. The hem is trimmed...
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,...
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...
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...
Woman on the left wears a gray carriage dress with long sleeves, a high collar, and an empire waist. The cuffs are edged with white lace and trimmed with gray frog closures. The bodice is trimmed with vertical lines of gray buttons, gray ribbon,...
Woman on left is seen from the back. She wears a light blue morning dress with long sleeves and an empire waist. The dress is trimmed with white fur with black spots, possibly ermine, at the hem and cuffs and with white ruffles at the shoulders and...
A woman in an evening dress from July 1817. She wears a white, empire-waist dress with short puffed sleeves gathered up with a pink rose. Pink roses accent the sleeves and bodice as well. She wears a pearl necklace and earrings, carries a white...
The woman on the left wears a blue walking dress with an empire waist, long sleeves, and a high collar. The dress fastens down the front and there are large, white, leaves on either side. The leaves start at the neck and end at the hem, following...
Bodices; Chairs; Cloaks; Clothing and dress; Color in clothing; Dresses; Earrings; Feathers; Fur garments; Gloves; Gold jewelry; Headgear; Letters; Necklaces; Neckwear; Pearls; Ribbons; Shoes; Sleeves; Tassels; Women's clothing; Women's hats;...
Two women in full dinner and evening dresses for November 1822. The woman on the left wears a red hat with yellow ribbon and white feather detailing. She is adorned with gold earrings and a pearl necklace. She is wrapped in a long, two-tiered, red...
A woman poses in promenade dress for December 1822. She wears a large, purple hat with a ruffled brim. A very dark purple flower with a blue center and white feathers decorate the top of the hat. The white ruffled edge of a cap is visible under the...
The woman wears a deep purple walking dress with a scalloped cape collar. The dress has long sleeves decorated with buttons and vertical zigzags on the sleeve above the cuffs. The skirt is adorned with several horizontal purple bands and a large...
A woman wears a pink redingote with ruffled, white cuffs. The skirt of the redingote is cut away at the front and poufed up at the back. Her underskirt is above ankle-length and white, and has a five or six tiers of lace ruffles at the hem. She...
A young woman wears a light blue dress and faces away from the viewer. The dress shows the back detailing of the fashionable bustled silhouette with a white underskirt with a deep ruffle at the hem. The skirt falls into a train, and there is a row...
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...
