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Lady's Monthly Museum, August 1802 | |
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Lady's Monthly Museum (1802) | |
This issue has two color plates. The two plates in my edition are inserted or bound between pages 132 and 133. On page 132 the original text reads as follows. Cabinet of Fashion,WITH ELEGANT COLOURED PLATES._____ FULL DRESSES. 1. Head-dress, pink and white crape, with ostrich feathers of the same. A white muslin dress, with pink sarcenet sleeves, trimmed with lace. Shoes, pink silk. 2. A blue sarcenet dress, with sleeve and stomacher of white sarcenet, trimmed with lace. The head-dress a lace bandeau, with a wreath of convolvolus flowers. White silk gloves. MORNING DRESSES.3. A hat and wreath of straw. A dress of yellow muslin, with lace let into the sleeves. A black lace spencer, with a full gathering round the neck, and a frill. The shoes straw-coloured. 4. A lilac muslin dress, with a white muslin cloak. The hat white sarcenet, trimmed with light blue. The gloves and shoes blue. ** The prevailing colours are pink, lilac, blue, and yellow. The Spanish cloak is universally worn. | |
This month's issue opens with an engraving labelled "Mrs Glover." A short biography follows of this actress whose "person, though rather corpulent, possesses much symmetry, and is not destitute of elegance" (73). |