English Fashions and Novelties
London Morning Dress - Pelisse robe of French grey gros de Naples, a tight corsage partially high, and trimmed with a heart pelerine, bordered with black double-grounded lace. The sleeves tight at top and bottom, but very full in the centre, with gauntlet cuffs, which are trimmed, as are also the tops of the sleeves, with black lace. The fronts and the round of the skirt are likewise edged with it. The head-dress is a fichu of tulle, edged with the same, and disposed on the head in the cap stile. The hind hair is gathered in a knot at the back of the head, under a bow of pink ribbon, from which floating ends descend; the border part of the fichu os ornamented in a light stile with ends of ribbon, which termintae in brides tied under the chin.
London Walking and Morning Visiting Dress - Robe of red lilac gros de Naples, trimmed with a flounce of the same, the heading of which is disposed in full dents de loup. The corsage, a three-quarter height, and tight to the shape, is partially covered with a fichu a la paysanne of the same material, edged with a full trimming disposed in dents de loup. Long tight sleeve, the upper part decorated with full trimmings en suite. Blue crape drawn bonnet, put very far back upon the head, and a very deep brim, the interior of which is trimmed over the forehead with tulle in the cap stile. Blue ribbons and a very long gerbe of pink and blue flowers decorate the crown: embroidered muslin collar.
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