Carriage Dress – 1836

Romantic Era Carriage Dress from The Ladies’ Cabinet November 1836

This authentic 1836 hand-colored fashion plate, featured in the notable British periodical The Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance, offers a fine example of late Georgian promenade and transit styling. The single-figure composition portrays an elegant lady standing in a half-turn pose, showcasing a tailored emerald green silk carriage jacket over an expansive cream satin skirt. The jacket is meticulously detailed with tone-on-tone lace embroidery along the broad lapels, featuring a cinched waistline anchored by a matching fabric sash tie with long hanging tassels that mimic early Victorian riding habits.

Antique British Fashion Engraving with Literary Period Accessories

The historical ensemble emphasizes a sophisticated coiffure styled with high braided loops and tight sausage curls, tightly bound by a striking crimson and white striped tricolor ribbon headband. In her hand, the lady holds an open newspaper or literary journal, reflecting the growing literacy and intellectual engagements of high-society women during the pre-Victorian transition. Completed with delicate black square-toe flat shoes and a subtle heart-pendant choker necklace, this antique lithograph serves as an essential primary resource for tracking the evolution of mid-19th-century daytime textiles and millinery arts.