Fashions for February, 1808
(from page 119)
Volume 3, No. 18 For February, 1808 | |
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Fig. No. 2.--Opera Dress--The most distinguished full dress is composed of a
magnificent cloth of a deep pink, worn over a white satin slip; the dress is made round and short,
with a square back on the top and at the bottom of the waist, which is rather increased in length; the
skirt is made entirely plain, and is laced down the back with small pink beads, in the form of
diamonds; the honey-comb front, made to the form of the bosom, short sleeves straight over the
shoulders, and at the back; broad Vandyke at the bottom of the sleeves of white satin, ornamented
round the neck, and in different parts in the Kolana style; the dress caught up and fastened with a
bunch of silver roses and green foil on the back of the left side above the knee, and hangs in loose
folds round the bottom, about a quarter of a yard distant from the bottom of the petticoat, on the
right side. The hair is combed straight from the crown of the head behind, and is formed into a thick
twist, which is confined with a rich diamond comb, on the top of which three gold crowns are
placed; the ends of the hind hair are seen in pendant ringlets falling over the left side of the head;
on the front of the forehead the hair is divided, and lays smooth over the right temple, and is kept
back by the Kolana crescent. Necklace and ear-rings of diamonds; gloves white kid; and shoes white
satin.
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