Our Fashion Print Collection Circa 1865: March

Plate 34. March 1865.   Fig. a. Spring checked silk, trimmed with blue silk, arranged in a fancy design. The corsage is trimmed in jacket style in front, and has a long coat-tail at back. Coat sleeve slit up the outside, trimmed with blue silk. White silk bonnet with an ostrich feather.   Fig b. Child’s dress of white figured alpaca, scalloped and bound with scarlet velvet; scarlet chenille embroidered. Full loops of scarlet velvet are on the sleeves and at the back of the dress.   Fig. c. Black silk circle, trimmed with large jet beads and narrow black velvet piping. Bonnet of green silk, trimmed with black and white lace.  Fig. d. Morning-robe of light cuir poplin, turned back with green silk facing, and trimmed around the skirt and on the corsage with a plait of chenille cord. Fine muslin, trimmed with a worked ruffle and rows of inserting. Chemisette of Valenciennes inserting and puffs of muslin. Fancy muslin cap.   Fig. e. Pearl-colored spring poplin, trimmed on the skirt with two rows of Solferino velvet, with long velvet hoops. Wide velvet belt, , fancy gilt buckle. Coat sleeve bound with Solferino velvet, and trimmed with epaulette of loops. White drawn bonnet.   Fig. f. Walking dress of purple silk, with matching paletot. Both trimmed with wide black velvet ribbon, finished with long chenille pendants. White drawn silk bonnet.