19th century fashion plates

Two women in an evening dress and a walking dress. The woman on the right is seated on a sofa and faces the second woman. Her hair is decorated with bunches of green flowers, circling the bun and side curls of her hair-do. Her dress is off-the-shoulder and the neck is trimmed with white, ruffled lace. The bodice is white with four, wide, horizontal, green stripes. Her sleeves are elbow length and made into two large puffs. Green ribbon bows accent the puffs. The hem of the sleeves is…

Fashion Plate, ‘Dinner Dress’ for ‘The Repository of Arts’, Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, April 1, 1825, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

Two women in full dress. The woman on the left wears a blue bonnet tied under her chin and a taupe over dress and a white dress with a floral pattern. The coat has wide lapels and buttons down the front. She wears white gloves and holds small pink parasol in the crook of her arm. The woman on the right is shown in a white bonnet with pink roses on the side and a pink dress with white lace trim along the neckline. She wears a jacket made of black lace or netting fastened with a pink bow, and…

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.