Home Costume – 1826

Late Georgian Home Costume in The Lady’s Magazine 1826 Engraving

This original hand-colored fashion plate from March 1826, titled “Home Costume” and invented by Miss Pierpoint for The Lady’s Magazine, illustrates an authentic indoor morning gown worn by British aristocratic women. The elegant standing figure captures the distinct stylistic transition from the high Regency silhouette to the broader shoulders of the late Georgian and early Romantic eras. The lady models a rich chestnut-brown silk or poplin day dress featuring structured, voluminous gigot sleeves that are heavily pleated at the shoulders and taper down to the wrists. The bodice is decorated with detailed horizontal pintucks, while the lower skirt border is embellished with a textured chevron or leaf-like padded trim along the hemline, showcasing the meticulous garment construction of 1820s London dressmakers.

Antique 1820s Indoor Daywear and Decorative Parlor Elements

An exceptional visual record for historic textile curators and interior design history, this 1826 engraving highlights the domestic fashion and parlor etiquette of upper-class ladies. The figure is styled with a large white lace morning cap adorned with tiny pink fabric roses and long pink satin ribbons that drape over her chest. She holds a long golden guard chain or quizzing glass ribbon, while a heavy maize-yellow shawl featuring intricate floral-embroidered borders rests elegantly across her arm. The background includes a unique wooden triangular corner table holding a classical blue porcelain vase filled with colorful spring wildflowers, providing highly optimized search value for theater costume designers, historic pattern makers, and collectors of antique British lifestyle prints.