Ackermann’s Repository of Arts/Series 1/Volume 1/March 1809/Fashions for Ladies
FASHIONS FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Plate 10.
For No 3, of Ackermann’s Repository of Arts &c Pub. 1st March 1809, at 101 Strand, London.
plate 10.ladies’ walking dress.
A Polish cap, and pelisse of silver grey cloth, trimmed with gold or silver, buttoned down the front with small round buttons, a high collar, with a lace ruff; boots of same colour as the pelisse, and both embroidered with gold or silver. York tan gloves.
This dress was transmitted to a lady of high rank from Warsaw, and would alone evince the taste and elegance of the ladies of that country, were they not already sufficiently known
For No 3, of Ackermann’s Repository of Arts &c Pub. 1st March 1809, at 101 Strand, London.
plate 11.opera dress.
Henry the Eighth hat of purple velvet trimmed with pearls, a dress of the same colour, with a white satin front trimmed with pearls, and fastened down the front with large white round pearls; a white satin Spanish mantle trimmed with swandown; white shoes and gloves, pearl ear-rings and necklaces, white and silver fans.
general observations.
The prevailing colours this month, are rose, green, and purple of various materials, silk, satins, and plain velvets, ornamented with gold and silver, pearls, or embroidery. Satin caps and hats, with short white feathers are generally worn. Small morning or walking hats, trimmed with silk frivolity, are an entire new and very elegant article. Mantles and pelisses of various forms are still much worn for morning dresses. White is again become the favourite colour, and great variety is displayed in the materials and form. Flowers are now beginning to appear again in morning and evening caps. The most fashionable style of wearing the hair is in ringlets à la Ninon; the shoes are embroidered in gold or silver for dress, and for undress in silk, chenille, or ribbon.
We have the pleasure to inform our fair readers, that the fashions for the present month have been again furnished by Madame Lanchester, whose taste and elegance stand so high in the estimation of the fashionable world.