Lady's Monthly Museum, September 1802

This issue has two color plates. The two plates in my edition are inserted or bound between pages 204 and 205. On page 204 the original text reads as follows.

Cabinet of Fashion,

WITH ELEGANT COLOURED PLATES.

_____

FULL DRESSES.

1. A head-dress, a veil of lace, embroidered with gold, pink and white ostrich feathers. A spencer of lace, embroidered with gold, over a dress of pink sarcenet. Shoes and gloves white silk.

2. The head-dress blue crape, trimmed with lace, and a wreath of flowers on the back of the head. The dress white muslin, with a robe of fine blue crape depending [sic, descending?] from the right shoulder, and fastened with sprigs of flowers. The shoes blue silk.

MORNING DRESSES.

3. A green crape bonnet, trimmed with the same, and lined with white. The tippet and glown white muslin. Gloves York tan.

4. A bonnet of lilac crape, with a shade and puffing of white muslin, and a feather of lead color. A muslin lilac gown, with tucks; and a spencer of white muslin, with a ruff. The gloves a brown tan.

** Fashionable colors same as last month.

This month's issue opens with an engraving labelled "Madame Recamier." The opening piece is one-page, discussing the widespread interest in Madame Recamier caused by her recent visit to London and her sensational "Republican costume" (145).