Fashions, 1854
Rating
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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