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Public Promenade Dress

Fashion Plate
1838 (published)
Place of origin

Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a dark green dress with gigot sleeves trimmed with tassels, a full skirt trimmed down the front with tasselled bows, and a v-shaped neckline trimmed with ermine fur and burgundy satin. She is holding a matching black and white ermine fur muff lined with burgundy satin, and is also wearing a pale yellow bonnet rimmed with ribbons and red floral blossoms.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitlePublic Promenade Dress
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured engraving
Brief description
'Public Promenade Dress', fashion plate, hand-coloured engraving, British, 1838
Physical description
Fashion plate showing a woman wearing a dark green dress with gigot sleeves trimmed with tassels, a full skirt trimmed down the front with tasselled bows, and a v-shaped neckline trimmed with ermine fur and burgundy satin. She is holding a matching black and white ermine fur muff lined with burgundy satin, and is also wearing a pale yellow bonnet rimmed with ribbons and red floral blossoms.
Credit line
Given by Mrs Willoughby Hodgson
Collection
Accession number
E.2764-1931

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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