French Fashions – 1846

Two women stand in a garden. The one on the left wears a lace cap with ruffles, a gold dress, and carries a basket of flowers. Her cap is white lace with pink and blue flowers and green leaves. Her dress has a narrow white shirt collar and has a blue ribbon tied in a bow in front. The skirt has five ruffled layers. The bodice has a pointed waist and long narrow sleeves. The woman on the right wears a pink bonnet, a blue striped dress, a blue and black mantelet and carried a blue parasol. Her bonnet is pink with white lace and pink flowers. The white and blue vertical striped dress has a high collar, long sleeves, and buttons down the front to the hem. Her mantelet is a deep navy blue in black covered and edged in black lace.

Credit: The Claremont Colleges