French Fashions – Autumn 1858

Two women and a little girl are standing outside. The woman on the left carries a parasol in her right hand. She wears a white bonnet with purple flowers. Her dress has a wide square neck and long bell sleeves. Outlining her sleeves, collar and top tier of her dress are wide purple ribbons with bows. Her dress is a light lavender with purple polka dots. She wears a white blouse with a gathered neck and long full sleeves gathered at the wrists. She wears white gloves. The little girl wears her hair dressed back off her face and a pink dress.

Her dress has three quarter length sleeves. There is ruffle outlining her sleeves and bottom of the first tier of her skirt. The skirt ends just below the knee. She wears black lace mitts and brown ankle boots. Her white blouse has elbow length pleated open sleeves, and she wears white lace-trimmed knickers and white stockings. The woman on the right wears a white lace bonnet with wide green ribbons. Her dress is brown Tattersall plaid with maroon buttons and maroon trimming down her bodice. She covers her dress with a black lace shawl and holds a green parasol closed in her right hand.

Credit: The Claremont Colleges