'The Fashions'. Walking dress and a useful toilet, November 1862 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'The Fashions'. Walking dress and a useful toilet, November 1862 NPG D47998
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode
Described in the magazine:
Walking Dress. - Left-hand figure - The materials of which this bonnet is composed are black and white tulle, black velvet, and blue ribbon. The front is of black velvet, the soft crown white tulle laid over black, and the curtain black velvet. A piece of broad blue ribbon is arranged over the bonnet, crossed at intervals by narrow bands of blue; and a plume of small black and blue feathers forms the trimming at the top of the chapeau. The... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.







