2-798-969 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris and London Fashions for December, 1845. 'A dress in brown Pekin, striped in velvet. A wadded emerald satin mantle richly embroidered, with gimp fastenings down the front of the mantle. A light silk bonnet with a single feather, and trimmed with broad lace to replace the veil. A lavender satin dress with three broad flounces of black lace, each headed by three rows of narrow black velvet, the corsage trimmed in the same manner; tight sleeves, likewise trimmed at the wrist with black velvet, and edged with a row of deep lace, falling over the hand. A mantelet caprice in black velvet surrounded with fur. A bonnet in stone-coloured velvet, trimmed with narrow cross way folds of the same material, and a feather'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.