Sujet
Fashions for August - Promenade or Carriage Costume, and Ball Dress, 1858. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Fashions for August - Promenade or Carriage Costume, and Ball Dress, 1858. 'Dress of very rich Azof-green silk, with two skirts. The upper one is edged with very broad green and white fringe, having a heading of green silk passementerie, intermingled with black velvet. The high corsage is fastened in front by buttons of malachite and gold...Bonnet of French chip, trimmed with bouquets of verbena, intermingled with broad blades of grass. The strings are of white ribbon, edged with rose-colour velvet. Square shawl of organdy muslin, edged with a frill of the same, headed by a bouilloné with running of lilac ribbon. Robe of white gauze, with nine narrow flounces, each edged with a bias band of maize-colour silk. Over this flounced skirt is a tunic...open at each side. The low corsage is finished at top by a ruche of tulle, and has a fichu Antoinette...formed of two frills of gauze...The front hair is disposed in double rouleaux at each side, and the back hair in loose bows or loops. The coiffure consists of bouquets of the lilac gladiolus with sprays of heath'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM23A81_464
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NA
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
18,3Mo (1,7Mo) / 22,0cm x 20,8cm / 2602 x 2459 (300dpi)