Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Fashions'. Ball dress, March 1863 NPG D48002

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode

Described in the magazine:
Ball Dress. - The hair is frizzed in tiny curls over the forehead, and is arranged in a long bag behind. The headdress consists of blue feathers and convolvulus. The dress is of amber moire, gracefully looped over a white silk under-skirt covered with tulle puffings. The bodice is in amber moire, rounded off in front, showing a white silk point. Behind, it terminates in a basque. This basque and the top of the bodice are trimmed with lace, headed by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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