Evening Dresses – 1802

Woman 1 wears a pale blue dress with long skirts, a scoop neck, and short puffed sleeves banded with white. She has long, white evening gloves, and carries a partially open pale blue fan in her right hand. Her hair is up and held in place by a wide pale blue band edged in white, and trimmed with a white veil and two white plumes. Woman 2 wears a long white dress with short, ruffled sleeves, empire waist, and a ruffled, scoop neck. Her evening gloves are long. and both the gloves and her shoes are white. She wears a patterned white band in her hair and she wears her hair up with a veil falling from her hair band. The image has been cropped by donor.

Credit: The Claremont Colleges