'Dinner Dress', March 1829 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Dinner Dress', March 1829 NPG D47644

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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

Described in issue number 3 of the magazine:
Dress of white satin or gros de Naples; the body made close to the shape, and nearly covered with white tulle drapery, which rises in a fan-like direction from the centre of the waist, and spreads in regular folds across the bosom, displaying the form to much advantage; the back is made in the same manner, and has a narrow band of white satin where it closes; the sleeves are full and short, with the least possible... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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