'English Dinner Dress', June 1829 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'English Dinner Dress', June 1829 NPG D47635

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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

Described in issue number 6 of the magazine:
Dress of Aurora colour crepe aerophane over a satin slip of the same colour; the corsage made close to the shape, displaying to advantage the fine formed bust; it is made extremely low on the shoulders, and adorned in the centre and sides with pinnatifid columns of satin; the sleeve short and very full; the skirt is ornamented by tucks half a quarter wide, extending half way up the dress: pinnatifid columns extend perpendicularly, and give a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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