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3 Ladies, Full Dress, Half Mourning and Evening Dress

Object/Artifact

3 ladies, first in trained full dress, probably court dress since it is trained. Lavish pink rose ornaments along hem and at left neckline. Large black plumed headdress. Next on might be half-mourning, all black with 2 white skirt frills and a bit in the shoulder, and white rugg. Heavy tasseled waist cord. Tall black bonnet topped with plumes. Last one wears simple white-patterned dress with modest hem frill and pink trim on bodice, roses in hair.

2022.35.0164

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Allgemeine Moden-Zeitung

1818

Early 19th Century

Technique: Hand Colored

Moden Z. 1818. No. 5.

German

fashion plate

print

half mourning

dress

Old Number

2000.076.24

Paper

Print

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