'Dinner Dress', February 1829 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Dinner Dress', February 1829 NPG D47634

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in R. Ackermann's Repository of Fashions

Described in issue number 2 of the magazine:
Dress of ethereal gros de Naples, the corsage à l'enfant set in a satin band of the same colour; the sleeves are long and full, with a stiffened gauntlet cuff of ethereal satin; the skirt, made extremely wide and slightly plaited in at the front and sides and very full behind, is trimmed with a deep garniture of tulle, having at the lower edge a broad stiffened band of ethereal satin, and headed by a corded biais... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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