Lady's Monthly
Museum (1811)
Cabinet of Fashion.
WITH ELEGANTLY COLOURED PLATES.
[From page 228] Figure 1.--A Chinese robe with full long sleeves of fine twilled
cambric, trimmed round the throat and wrist, and down the front, with a full frill of the same. A
French foundling cap, formed of alternate strips of lace and white satin,
trimmed with white ribbon and autumnal flowers. A pelisse [typo for pereline!!! picture is clearly
a pereline] of spotted muslin or net, trimmed entirely round with lace or muslin, and thrown loosely
over the shoulders. Shoes and gloves of lemon-coloured kid. [Plate is
pirated from a morning dress printed in Ackermann's Repository the month before, with a prettier woman seated in
the same dress with an almost identical description, except pereline not pelisse is used to describe
the scarf.]
Figure 2. [not shown here]--A round high robe with long sleeves,
and falling collar, edged with lace or needle work, the dress
composed of fine cambric. A small Capuchin mantle of green
sarsnet, lined with white, and trimmed with Chinese silk fringe,
of corresponding shades; deep Spanish pointed cape, trimmed with
the same. White satin Spanish hat,the rim of the same colour as
the mantle, ornamented with a demi-wreath of corn-flowers. Roman
shoes of green morocco. Gloves lemon colour.
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