Our fashion print collection: April

Plate 33. April 1865. Fig. a. Dinner dress of ruby silk, with a box-plaited ruff at the hem, bound with black, and headed by a quilling of heavy black silk. The corsage is trimmed with a small cape, with a narrow ruffle. Cape and sleeves are trimmed with quillings of black silk. Fig. b. Child’s dress of white alpaca, edged with a narrow fluted ruffle and seven rows of blue silk piping. The point, bretelles, and sash are all of blue silk. Guimpe with long, puffed, muslin sleeves. Boots of blue lasting. Fig. c. Fawn-colored spring poplin, open at back and front, showing a skirt of blue silk. Epaulettes, cuffs, and the band around the neck are also of blue silk. Epaulettes, cuffs, and the band around the neck are also of blue silk. White silk drawn bonnet. Fig. d. Green silk dress, trimmed with thick cording around the skirt, graduated up the front, and on the sleeves. Leghorn hat. Fig. e. Spring suit, of light cuir mohair, with buttons to match. The hair is caught in a net of heavy green chenille; leghorn hat. Fig. f. Purple silk suit, trimmed at the hem with two rows of narrow ribbon quilled with rosettes between. The same trimming is around the paletot and up the back. White straw hat.