THE MIRROR OF FASHION FOR NOVEMBER 1828
Walking-Dress
A Dress of stone-coloured gros-de-Naples, with a broad hem round the border, turning down with points, and headed by another row of points which stand upward. Each row of these ornaments is bound round the points with a narrow rouleau. The body is laid in small plaits, and made partially high, with a double frill round the neck, pinked, and of the same colour and material as the dress, under which is worn a fichu of fine India mulin, surmounted by a double French ruff of lace; and fastened in front by a small bow of riband. A sash of white riband with coloured stripes, encircles the waist. A bonnet is worn with this dress, either of celestial-blue or sea-green gros-de-Naples, as best suits the complexion; it is trimmed with scrolls of the same colour and material as the bonnet, and lemon-coloured riband, edged with pink. The strings float loose.
Evening-Dress
Over a white satin slip is a dress of blue crape, of a very pale tint, with two rows of ornaments round the border, ingeniously finished by delicate needlework, representing vine-leaves. The corsage is plain, with a pointed zone of blue satin; the sleeves short and full, with a lace frill round the arm; and, at the shoulders are cleft mancherons, embroidered at the edge in a slight pattern. A very narrow tucker of blond surrounds the bust. The hair is arranged in a very novel manner round the face; it, certainly, has rather too much the appearance of the large curls, so lately, and happily, grown out of favour; but it is not composed of curls, neither are the light puffs of hair, which are almost transparent, from their gossamer arrangement, disproportionately large, except just above the forehead, where they represent a dignified elevation, accordant with full dress; and they are, in fact, only two light puffs formed from the longer tresses, and are so beautifully divided by pearls, and a splendid diadem ornament of the same valuable materials, that no other mode of dressing the hair would have appeared so well. The whole is crowned by a superb plume of white ostrich feathers. The ear-rings are of wrought gold, and the necklace of opal. The bracelets of white enamel and gold.
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