MODERN.
EVENING DRESS.
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Volume 2 (ns), No. 7 September 1809 | |
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This issue reproduced another plate from Hope's Costume of the Ancients and also had a plate labelled "Evening Dress." The description of the latter is below.
Head dress á la Grec--White satin dress with long sleeves, ornamented round the bosom, and bottom of the dress, with gold trimming--Necklace of pearls--White kid gloves, and white satin shoes, with small gold rosettes.--A royal purple velvet mantle, lined with yellow satin, and trimmed with ermine, and tassels of blue silk at each end.
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