'Evening Dress. Concert Dress', April 1827 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Evening Dress. Concert Dress', April 1827 NPG D47602
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by William Read, published by George Byrom Whittaker, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
Described in the issue for April 1827:
Concert Dress. A Dress of white tulle richly embroidered, over a slip of white satin, on which, appearing below the tulle dress, is a border next the shoe, formed of white satin, edged with black, en dents de loups. Two blond flounces, in festoons, ornament the border of the tulle dress above. The body en gerbe, with short, full sleeves, formed of jabots in blond, with mancherons à la Psyche, in blond, of which material is a triple... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










