Details

Object type

pages; print; fashion plate

Title

Evening Dress; Riding Dress

Date

1 May 1818

Materials

paper

Dimensions

overall: 209 mm x 133 mm

Description

Prints or fashion plates, hand-coloured, double page, 'Evening Dress' and 'Riding Dress', 'Invented by Miss McDonald No 60 South Moulton St For the British Lady's Mag[azine] No. 12' with attached pages 237-240 'Fashionable Costume for May, 1818'. Depicts two women; one on left facing back in a cap, long-sleeved white dress with pink cord trimmings on bodice, cuffs and hem, whitework around lower skirt, seated on a chair; one on right in a feather trimmed dark navy blue hat and riding habit, holding a riding crop, 'New Series Pubd May 1, 1818'. Handwritten in pencil '1818'.

Page 237 'Miscellaneous Intelligence [...]. Page 238 descriptions of the fashion plates '[...] Fashionable Costume. Dinner Dress. Dress of fine jacconot muslin, worked at the bottom in a French pattern, which is divided by a double Rolleaux of thin muslin, drawn with peach; the body made low with a small jacket finished with tabs, and a cape, which passes round the shoulders and meet in front: the sleeves are made full with epaulets, and a French cuff, the whole trimmed in a nouville manner with muslin rolleaux, drawn with peach, and edged with narrow, Honiton lace; cap of fine bobbin lace, ornamented with white satin pipings, and a beauquet of pearl flowers. White kid gloves and shoes. Riding Dress. Homberg habit of fine Royal blue cloth; the skirt, which is very wide and long, is superbly embroidered up the front with braid, in a new and elegant manner; the body is made tight to the shape, and without seams, meets and buttons in front; the waist short and terminates with a small jacket, which is richly braided; the sleeve of a moderate width, braided at the cuff; wing epaulets, beautifully embroidered with braid and tassels; riding vest, composed of fine India dimity, made close in front to support the figure, to which is attached the newly invented Athenian brace, which pro-'. Continued on page 239 'duces that fall of the shoulders and elegant form of the back so much admired, and prevents that warp in the figure which riding often produces; cravat of fine India muslin, and an embroidered collar. Hat of plush, with a plume of intermingled black and blue feathers. Blue boots, and beaver gloves. For the above dresses we beg to aknowledge our obligations to Miss Macdonald, inventress of the Ionian Cork Hats, 50, South Moulton Street, Bond Street, to whose taste and ingenuity we have frequently been indebted. General Observations on Fashionable Dress [...].' Continued on page 240.

Credit Line/Donor

Gifted by the Barnes family, 2022

ID Number

E.2022.2.387

Location

In storage