Landscape format plate, set in a ballroom draped with garlands, showing 12 women and 8 small children mostly in party frocks, one small boy in a brown suit. Two women in the background wear long-sleeved day dresses, and a third wears a formal reception gown with elbow length sleeves. The other women all wear elaborately bustled and embellished evening gowns with low necklines and short sleeves. A small girl in the centre foreground holds a fashionably dressed doll, and another to the far left holds a doll dressed as a Polchinelle (the French version of Mr. Punch).