Regency robe à la Turque of white muslin 1796.
Afternoon dress August 1796. Heideloff`s Gallery of Fashion.
FIG. CX
The toupee dressed in loose curls; the hind hair turned up in loops, the ends returned in ringlets; broad white satin riband across the toupee, with a bow in the front and behind. Fancy plume in a black tuft placed in the front, and a spotted coloured ostrich feather on the right side. White tiffany petticoat with an embroidered broad border. Robe à la Turque of white muslin embroidered in colours; trimmed round the neck with a plaiting of lace; short full sleeves of purple tiffany. Sash and upper bracelets of broad silver lace. Diamond ear-rings and necklace. White gloves and shoes, imitating sandals.
Gallery of Fashion Vol. 3, 1795-1796. Published by Nicolaus Wilhelm von Heideloff, London.
Associated to:
- Fashion and costume in the eighteenth century.
- The Days of the Directoire.
- Fashion in the Reign of Napoleon I. 1804 to 1814.
- The Restoration period fashion 1814 to 1830.
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