Promenade and carriage dress, July 1842 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Promenade and carriage dress, July 1842 NPG D47899
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Dobbs & Co, published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum, first published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes
Described in the magazine:
Dress of lilac barège; the skirt unusually long, and almost forming a train at the back. Corsage à coulisses, made square at the top of the bust, and a piece put in to form the shoulder. Short sleeves of barège made with fullness to match the body, and a long sleeve of white organdi, pretty full and confined with a band at the wrist complete this dress. A narrow lace goes round the corsage at top and finishes the short sleeve:... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










