Evening and ball dresses, April 1847 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Evening and ball dresses, April 1847 NPG D47976

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Elizabeth Henderson, published in The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance

Described in the magazine:
No. 10. Evening Dress. Spotted straw-coloured gauze robe, over straw-coloured silk; the corsage, cut very low and descending a little in the centre, is trimmed with three full falls of the same. Short tight sleeves. There are three skirts of different lengths, the upper one opening en tunique, and rounded at the corners. The headdress is a toquet of white velours épinglé, the front formed of a diadem of beads terminated by bead tassels.
No. 11. Ball Dress. White tulle robe... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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