Fashions – Winter 1844

Five women are depicted. The woman at the top left wears her hair up in a braided bun, with side ringlets. She wears a white dress and a black mantelet, with fur or velvet lapels and cuffs. The woman at the top middle wears a blue bonnet with yellow flowers and a white dress with a lace collar. Over it she wears a green mantelet with three tiered sleeves which is edged with braid or cord. She holds a handkerchief and a pair of lorgnette eyeglasses in her right hand, and an opened letter in her left. The woman at the top right wears a white bonnet decorated with pink ribbon and white lace, and a white underdress with a green short sleeved overdress.

The overdress has a notched collar and is edged in a three rows of dark green.The woman at the bottom left wears a white bonnet and a blue dress with a brown mantelet on top. The mantelet is edged in wide black lace ruffles. She holds a handkerchief in her left hand. The woman at the bottom right wears a pink bonnet and a light green dress with a dark green shawl on top. The shawl is striped with blue, pink, and yellow and has multicolored fringe on the hem. She holds her handkerchief in her left hand.

Credit: The Claremont Colleges