Robe longue tunique, à large encolure ronde et manches 3/4 en mousseline imprimée façon Liberty de d'un semis de fruits et de feuilles stylisés sur fond noir et large bande bleu nuit à l'ourlet. Liens décoratifs noués aux épaules. Petit volant à la tête de manches. Empiècement arrondi autour de l'encolure, reserve de couture à l'extérieur, d'où partent 2 panneaux flottants
Women's fashion plate from the early XIX century (March 15, 1815) (Costume Parisien) (Journal des Dames et des Modes)
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Fashion plates, like fashion magazines (and some corners of instagram…) today, sell not only aspirational fashions, but also aspirational lifestyles. There is a series of Costume Parisien fashion plates, stretching from the 1790s to 1820, that shows an fashionable lifestyle that I can very much see myself ascribing too… I call it Regency Ladies Reading*. 1810-11 was by far the high point of the style. The fashion illustrator hit on a post he liked, and built numerous outfits, all modelled by ladies intent on their literature, around it. *Somewhat inaccurately, because the fashion plates originated in France, and some predate the English Regency. I suppose I could call it ‘Empire Ladies Enlarging Their Minds’….
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Fashion plate for 1810 showing a red pelisse.
Philadelphia Museum of Art c1800
Regency Housemaid 1827
