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With Real Fashions: A Splendid Display Piece

 

(MILLINERY EXHIBIT). The Fashions. Expressly designed and prepared for the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. January 1864. [Caption title]. Oval gilt frame, 11.5" x 9.5." Gilt ringed oval mat over French fashion engraving (7.5" x 5") with two foreground figures of young women. One is dressed from the neck down in a heavy  pink brocaded full gray one piece floor length dress; the other is similarly attired in a full skirted purple velvet dress with gilt rope decorative motif. The dresses are each 3.5" in length and 5" in width overall (with the purple velvet partially covering the gray dress). Highly appealing and very unusual. [Paris? London?: 1864]. A few small brown spots on the paper, the frame probably repainted some time ago, but the dresses in excellent condition, the figures with white cloth gloves. The date on a small pasted slip. $350.00