Romantic Era Fashion Chit Chat - July 1830 Ladies' Pocket Magazine

Romantic Era Fashion Chit Chat - July 1830 Ladies' Pocket Magazine

Cursory Remarks on the last new Fashions

The weather has been so very bad during the last month, that many of our fair pedestrians betook themselves again to their silk mantles, and those who did not, threw warm shawls over thier silk dresses; thus, out-door costume, at least, as far as regards the promenade, affords us no novelty worthy of being presented to our fair readers.

We have noticed some very elegant pelisse gowns in carriage dress, and in the promenade of Kensington Gardens. We have given one of the most striking of these in our print of English fashions. Some of the others had the body made in the shawl style, but the bust less exposed than lately; the rouleau, which bordered the corsage, was brought down at each side, in the style of a broken cone, and the front was ornamented with a row of rich brandebourgs to correspond in color with the dress, and placed near each other.

Several dresses of striped silks are fastened down the front with ornaments composed of four ends of ribbon, which always correspond with the colors of the dress; these ends, each cut in a scollop, and edged with narrow blond lace, form a round rosette, in the centre of which is a gold fillagree ornament.

The most elegant carriage hats are of plain rose colored or white watered gros de Naples; their trimmings are either branches of foliage intermixed with ribbon, or a bouquet of flowers placed on one side; a large knot is placed at the base of the bouquet, and another near the top of the crown on the opposite side.

Striped silks are coming much into favor in evening dress: we have seen some finished round the border with three bias tucks put close together, but of different widths, the second being a little deeper than the first, and the third than the second.

A great number of dresses have no other trimming round the bottom, than a large open chain, or if the dress is composed of silk, a rouleau of satin of the same color.

The corsages of full dress gowns are either cut very low and square, or lese made open before and behind; in the former case they are usually bordered with very narrow scolloped blond lace, in the latter, they display a chemisette composed either of blond lace, or embroidered muslin. These chemisettes are cut a very delicate height round the neck, and are usually furnished with a lace tucker a l' enfant.

Dress hats are frequently trimmed with a bouquet composed of three different flowers, as for instance, a snow-drop, a rose, and a camelia.

Turbans of colored gauze made in the Moorish style, and without any ornament, are much in favor; they are of a large size, and the folds excessively voluminous.

Many young ladies have their hair dressed in the Chinese style, without any other ornament than a single knot of ribbons at the back of the head.

Where flowers are used to decorate the hair, it is either a wreath arranged as in our print, or else a large bouquet placed very backward, and which droops over the bows at the side of the head.

Fashionable colors are rose color, flamme de ponche, green, blue, grey, and ponceau.