Two more lovely illustrations from my Ladies magazine of
1831 showing a public promenade dress and an evening dress. Even though the walking
dress includes a ruff it disappointingly has no lace – the ruff is made of
cambric ‘lightly embroidered around the edge’. The evening dress includes
plenty of blonde lace however, around the skirt and the neckline and at the end
of each sleeve. The fashion correspondent also notes that she has seen some
very pretty morning caps ‘made in imitation of the French blonde de fil’ with
short lappets descending from the ears which may be tied or left loose ‘at the
pleasure of the wearer’. She continues that the ‘crown is of the horseshoe
shape’ and the caps are trimmed with small ribbon bows ‘mingled with the lace
in front’ with a larger bow at the back. She doesn’t supply an illustration but
I think it must have resembled the morning cap in my blog post of 21 June which
also shows a mixture of lace and ribbons.
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