A variety of English coat styles for men are shown in this illustration for March, 1855. Seven men are divided into two groups by the illustrator, the first group gathers around a man sitting in a chair, and the second group gathers around a man...
The upper row of figures shows the upper-halves of three women, while the second row shows two additional women head to toe who stand on a swirl-patterned carpet. The woman in the upper left faces away from the viewer. She wears a white dress with...
Women's clothing; Hats; Dresses; Lace and lace making; Color in clothing; Cloaks; Feathers
Four women are depicted in a city street in front of storefronts. Two are facing away while the other two converse with each other. The farthest left wears a bonnet, dress and cloak. The bonnet is blue with white feathers. The dress is light blue...
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....
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...
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...
Seven women stand in a row. The woman on the left wears a high-collared, copper red dress with a small cloak. Velvet lapels and velvet fronts on the skirt are crossed with cords, with fancy frogs on each side. She carries a matching velvet muff,...
Five women are standing in a parlor with drapes and potted plants behind them. The woman on the left is holding a drawing in her hand and faces away from the viewer. She is wearing a purple velvet dress with a ribbon encircling the neck with a bow...
Five women are standing out of doors. Behind them are trees and houses. The woman on the left is wearing a deep green velvet jacket over a yellow dress. The jacket has long straight sleeves with a slight fullness at the shoulder. The jacket has...
Five women are standing in an elegant room. The woman on the left is wearing a blue dress trimmed with blue and white stripes. The dress jacket has wide striped lapels, two pairs of buttons, and sleeves that are slightly full at the shoulders, and...
Five women in winter attire are standing in the snow with light snow falling. The woman on the left is wearing a tan and brown long-sleeved dress with fur lining, and a matching brown velvet plumed hat. Her garment has brown velvet edged wide...
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...
Three children gather around a baby in an effort to entertain the child before its christening ceremony. The child wears a long white ruched christening gown trimmed with bands of pleating and lace and a wide pink bow. The child wears an elaborate...
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 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...
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...
The woman on the left wears a bright pink, off-the-shoulder opera dress with a low neckline and short, puffed sleeves. There is ruching at the neck and white, lace ruffles at the shoulders. A second, loose, over-sleeve made of white lace hangs over...
The woman on the left wears a green dress with ankle-length skirts and demi-gigot sleeves that puff enormously above the elbow and are tight to the wrist. The bodice of the dress has two sides which wrap over each other and are held closed by a...
The woman on the left sits on a low footstool that is upholstered in green with white fringe. Her back is to the viewer, and she wears a pink, off-the-shoulder dress with short, puffed sleeves trimmed with white ruffles. Three tiers of white lace...
