French Fashions – 1846

Two women stand outside a tent in a field next to a table with food and cutlery on it. The woman on the left wears her hair in a braided bun and wears a tan and brown dress and blue gloves. Her pinstriped dress has a high collar, pointed waist, and a peplum. There is a green ribbon around the collar and brown buttons down the front of the dress. The dress has long narrow sleeves and is trimmed with two rows of narrow brown edging. The woman on the right wears a yellow straw bonnet, a white lace dress, a pink shawl and carries a closed blue parasol. Her bonnet is adorned with pink flowers, wheat sheaves, and yellow ribbon. Her dress has a narrow shirt collar and a two layered skirt. Around her waist is a pink sash with fringed ends and her pink shawl is also fringed.

Credit: The Claremont Colleges