'Full Dress', February 1809 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Full Dress', February 1809 NPG D47541

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the issue for January 1809:
Evening Dress. A round robe, with short train of claret-coloured crape or muslin; a fluted ribband round the bottom of the same colour; a French stomacher front of white satin, either plain or laced with silver cord, and trimmed with narrow vandyke lace, which is continued round the back and shoulders; a white satin long sleeve, edged as the stomacher, or with a deep antique cuff of lace. A square mantle of white net, embroidered in large spots... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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