Paris Fashions – Winter 1873

Five women and a young girl are in a salon. All of them wear their hair up, and elaborately dressed. The young girl at the far left is standing. Her blue dress has a square neck and short puffed sleeves. Her skirt ends about mid-calf and has the elaborate back detailing of the fashionable bustled silhouette.

The dress has a square neck with white edging, and a skirt with a ruffle-edged upper tier gathered into poufs at the back over a blue satin underskirt. The dress has a belt at the waist. She wears white gloves, a gold bracelet, gold pendant earrings, white stockings, and blue heeled shoes with rosettes.The woman next to her is seated in a red upholstered chair. She wears a white lace headpiece with a black bow. Her dress is steel blue with a v-neck and long bell sleeves.

The lapels, sleeve cuffs, and peplum of her jacket are all edged in white lace ruffles. The white lace is continued on her skirt in three rows at the front. Her accessories include earrings and a gold pendant necklace. The next woman to the right wears a brown dress with long sleeves and the elaborate back detailing of the fashionable bustled silhouette. Her collar, sleeves, and hem of her jacket are trimmed with black lace. Her accessories include gloves and earrings.

She is seated in a red upholstered chair and rests her foot on a small footstool. The woman next to her wears a green dress with a square neck with long narrow sleeves. She has green ruffles and rosettes trim her collar, sleeves, the front of her bodice and skirt, and the edges of her overskirt. She wears oval gold earrings and two gold necklaces.

The woman next to her wears a pink dress with an off the shoulder neck and short puffed sleeves. The bodice and overskirt are pale pink with a floral pattern, trimmed with dark pink satin ribbon and ruffled white scalloped lace. The skirt is draped up in back over a bustle. She has white ruffles around her neck, sleeves, and down the center front and sides of the overskirt.

Her underskirt is pink with a white lace flounce above the hem. Her accessories include gloves, a gold bracelet and a gold pendant necklace. The woman on the far right wears white flowers in her hair. Her dress has an ivory jacket with bell sleeves, purple detailing, and a purple skirt. Her jacket has a floral design along the edges, and tasseled fringe along the front edges of the jacket. A large purple bow adorns her skirt.

Her dress has long bell sleeves and draped back detailing of the fashionable bustled silhouette. A narrow white ruffle of her blouse is visible at the neckline and cuffs. She wears gold earrings and a gold pendant necklace, perhaps a cameo or locket.

Credit: The Claremont Colleges