Bodices; Brocade; Clothing and dress; Collars; Dresses; Flowers; Gloves; Hairstyles; Lace and lace making; Pleats (Sewing); Scrolls; Sleeves; Women's clothing
A young woman is dressed for the evening in ball gown She stands in a three-quarter profile view and leans against the mantle of a (suggested) fireplace. The scroll-work on the fireplace indicates a well-appointed home where the young woman holds a...
A woman stands in three-quarter view and leans casually against a rustic wooden fence outdoors with tall grass and wildflowers growing there. She has dark brown hair and wears a fashionable dark-colored suit with a white shirt. The skirt is flared...
Clothing and dress; Cobblestone roads; Color in clothing; Dresses; Sleeves; Plaid; Women's clothing
A woman wears a loose white bonnet on her head and long gown. The bodice and sleeves of her dress are green, red, yellow, and gold plaid and she wears a red and gold paisley scarf tucked into the waist of her empire-waist floor length black skirt....
Six color head and shoulder portraits of women numbered 1 through 6 are arranged in three vertical columns to display spring hats. Women number 1, upper left, shows a rose pink hat covered with a multitude of bows and ruching. The model wears a...
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...
Two boys and two girls stand in a lush garden next to a fountain under shady trees. The tallest boy on the left stands with his back to the viewer so we can see the rear cut of his blue jacket. The jacket has a snug fit, dropped shoulders, and...
A woman and man stand in a grove. Drawn during the height of the Napoleonic Empire, this illustration shows the woman and man in empire style. The woman's empire-waist 'half dress' is white with short puffed sleeves, and has green zigzag trimming...
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...
At the height of the summer boating season, three men meet by the river bank in England in the summer of 1855. The man on the left displays the back of a fitted, camel colored frock coat that has two buttons at the back waistline. He wears slim...
One of several drawings from "La Vieille Armee francaise" (1820) or "La Vie politique et militaire de Napoleon" (Paris, 1826), showing infantry uniforms or "military exploits under the First Empire, which made [Charlet's] work popular with the...
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 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...
Three young children, two girls, and a boy with a dog stand out of doors by a fence while they model their morning fashions for 1914. The little boy on the left wears a short charcoal gray coat and short pants. The coat has a wide light gray collar...
Two views, front and back, are shown of a gentleman's outfit in this illustration for the Petit Courrier des Dames of 1831. The cut away coat on the left is a dark hunter green with wide lapels and a black velvet collar. A single pink rose sits in...
Central to this illustration for Petit Courrier des Dames is an overcoat for men, circa 1818, France. Shown from the back, this dark blue overcoat has tucks at the back waist falling in loose folds to the ankle. At the collar is a waist-length cape...
Pearls; Gloves; Lace and lace making; Women's shoes; Women's clothing; Necklaces; Headgear; Color in clothing; Clothing and dress; Stripes; Earrings; Sleeves; Arches; Gargoyles; Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615; Ruff
Marguerite of France, the first wife of Henri the IV, wears a charcoal colored dress with a large skirt, with a wheel farthingale. The underdress is purple with nine, bright yellow stripes at the hem. She wears white gloves and her cuffs are white...
