1843 fashion

Five women are depicted. The woman on the top left faces away, wearing a green bonnet with matching ribbon and plumes. Her white dress is covered in pink and green plaid and she wears a blue shawl with zigzag trim. She holds a white ruffle-edged handkerchief. The top middle woman wears a yellow ruched bonnet with ribbons and bows and a white dress covered with a dark purple jacket or shawl edged with ruffles and braid or tassel trim. She too carries a ruffled white handkerchief. The woman at…

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Let's take a quick look at what the Early Victorian woman of fashion would have ideally worn, courtesy of some plates from The New Monthly Belle Assemblee. It should be noted that only a minority of women wore clothes like this made of fine fabrics and intended for very specific occasions. Even most of the women who read this magazine might have seen them as more to be aspired to than actually worn! As usual, the person who wrote the original descriptions of these plates interlarded the text…

The woman on the left wears a blue dress with buttons down the bodice, a belt, long sleeves which puff between the elbow and the cuff, and full, wrapped skirts. Her cuffs are white, and the dress has wide dark blue velvet lapels like those of a jacket. A white lace collar is open over the velvet lapels, and the woman wears a square-necked, lace-edged chemise under her dress. Her dotted white bonnet is trimmed with lace, white bows, and pink flowers, and she wears white stockings, black…

Two women stand outside. The woman on the left wears a blue bonnet with a long black lace veil at the back, a gray dress with a black coat and carries a spotted ermine muff. The woman on the right faces away and wears a green bonnet with ruffles and a purple mantelet edged with rows of narrow trim over a light brown striped dress with two wide bias ruffles at the hem.

1843. Evening and Day Dress, Le Moniteur de la Mode, December

Casey Fashion Plates Detail | Los Angeles Public Library Collection ID: 3 Title: Le Moniteur de la Mode Date: Sunday, October 1, 1843 Item ID: v. 27, plate 78

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Early Victorian Era Fashion Plate - March 1843 Godey's Lady's Book No description for this plate was given in the magazine.