2-888-386 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paris Fashions for September - Toilette d'Interieur, 1850. 'Coiffure in white blonde, with rosettes in gros-de-Naples ribbons. This coiffure is placed quite at the back of the head, and is, therefore, as it were, supported by the back hair alone. The dress is in taffetas d'Italie (bleu Louise), with high and closed body, ornamented with brandebourgs, but embroidered on the stuff. This embroidery is either in satin stitch or in tambour, and sometimes laid on in narrow gimp trimming; the sleeves, wide and turned over, are also slightly embroidered.' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.