3-085-767 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ladies' Page: a cloth walking costume, 1898. 'The season beyond the Irish Channel looms large. Vice-regal gaieties are in the air, and West-End milliners are busy over the panoply of forthcoming vanquishings and victories. Here par exemple are items in the devastating roll-call of a popular beauty's trousseau. Here, also, for the greater entertainment and edification, not to mention envy, of Grafton Street on a fine afternoon, is appended - or added, as you will - a cloth walking-gown, loyally built in arbutus green, a smart design in white cloth appliqué trimming bodice and sleeves, while the skirt, with shaped godet flounce, is treated to match; the inevitable bow of point d'esprit or chiffon shows at neck, and a full vest of ivory lace over white mousseline makes the coat a thing of joy and its wearer one of beauty, given, nem. con., the most ordinary pink cheeks and black eyelashes'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.