1840s fashion plate

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Ladies' Companion May 1857 LAPL

Two women are depicted in front of a balustrade, with trees in the distance. The woman on the left wears her hair up in a bun with ringlets covering her ears. Her dress is a light pink with black vertical stripes. The pink dress is off the shoulder with capped short sleeves. Underneath it she wears a white blouse with long full sleeves, and a high neck with a ruffle. The woman also wears a green apron tied around her waist. The apron has four horizontal black stripes of trim at the bottom…

A woman wears a pink bonnet with large white plumes and pink flowers inside the brim. Her dress is green with long narrow sleeves with pleats down the sleeves, and narrow white lace ruffles at the cuff. The bodice is V-necked with pleats rising from the center front out over the shoulders, and has a wide ruffled lace or net collar with a brooch.

Fashion plate, 1847 Germany, Pariser Moden

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