'Parisian Carriage Dress', March 1829 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Parisian Carriage Dress', March 1829 NPG D47627
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in R. Ackermann's Repository of Fashions
Described in issue number 3 of the magazine:
Front Figure. A redingote composed of velvet, the colour is boue de Paris; the corsage is made to sit close to the shape, the sleeve cut full and much puffed out on the shoulder by a newly-invented manche en gigot; it is terminated by a cuff à l'antique, finished à la Grecque at the top, by two very narrow rouleaux of satin a shade darker than the velvet; the skirt is finished round the bottom by a... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










