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Title	Fashions, 1854
Subject - LCSH	Women's clothing Girls' clothing Color in clothing Hair ornaments Jackets Ribbons Boots Hats Parasols Stripes
Subject - Local	19th C costume Bonnets (Hats) Overcoats Ruffle Shirtwaists
Historical decade	1850-1859
Historical period	American - Antebellum, 1854-1861 French - Second Empire, 1852-1870 United Kingdom - Early Victorian, 1837-1860
Description	A woman is depicted inside her house, leaning out the window to visit with a passing woman and child. The woman in the window wears multicolored striped ribbons and white flowers on her lace cap. Her dress is gray with long bell sleeves. Over her dress she wears a black velvet jacket with scallop edged v-neck and long bell sleeves, trimmed with black lace. She wears bracelets on both wrists. She hands the little girl a bunch of grapes. The little girl wears her hair in two braided buns, covering each ear, accented with blue ribbon. Her dress is light blue, off the shoulder, with three-quarter length sleeves and ends just at her knees. The bodice is edged in narrow ruched ruffles and the skirt has four horizontal rows of ruffles. Under the blue dress, she wears a white undergarment with a high neck and long sleeves. She wears gray ankle boots with buttons on the side. Her mother wears a lavender bonnet with scalloped edges, trimmed with ruffles, leaves, flowers, and lace, and she carries a white parasol in her left hand. Her dress is light orangy tan with a jewel neckline and long bell sleeves. The jacket is edged with black ribbons on the sleeves, bodice, and hem. The skirt has multiple horizontal rows of black trim progressively getting wider down the skirt. The jacket is trimmed with bars of ribbon across two slashes on each sleeve, and down the center front, with ribbon rosettes with hanging ends on each sleeve. The overall effect is that the outfit was historically inspired by the look of seventeenth century costume. She also wears multiple bracelets and yellow gloves.There is a basket full of flowers resting on the ledge under the window.
Notes	Written on frame is "1854"
Publisher	Ella Strong Denison Library
Source	Fashion Plate, engraving (print), colored, 6.25 x 9.25 inches; Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library, Macpherson Collection, Costume Plates of Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby, box 8
Collection	Fashion Plate Collection, 19th Century - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/fpc
Rights	For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the Ella Strong Denison Library at http://libraries.claremont.edu/denison
Type	Image
Format	image/jp2
Object File Name	fpc00361.tif

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