French Fashions – 1846

Two women in full dress. The woman on the left wears a blue bonnet tied under her chin and a taupe over dress and a white dress with a floral pattern. The coat has wide lapels and buttons down the front. She wears white gloves and holds small pink parasol in the crook of her arm. The woman on the right is shown in a white bonnet with pink roses on the side and a pink dress with white lace trim along the neckline. She wears a jacket made of black lace or netting fastened with a pink bow, and holds a bouquet pink roses in her gloved hands.

Credit: The Claremont Colleges