French Fashions, December 1831. 'Morning Dress. Dinner Dress. Opera Dress' Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
French Fashions, December 1831. 'Morning Dress. Dinner Dress. Opera Dress' NPG D47660
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Whittaker & Co, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
Described in the magazine:
Morning dress. An open dress, composed of white watered gros de Naples, over a pale rosecoloured slip. Corsage, of a novel form: the collar high, and sitting close to the neck behind, forms a lappel on the upper part of the bust; the corsage sits close to the shape, and is partially covered by a very large pelerine, rounded behind, but forming a coeur in front. The back of the collar, the whole of the pelerine, and the tour of the... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










