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Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
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ach side; a fall of blackblond lace, deep enough to form acurtain-veil, is attached to the edgeof the brim. Black velvet bonnets are still infavour, but, except in mourning, theyare no longer lined with black. Tro-cadero, rose colour, and ponceauare the favourite hues for linings.The brims are something larger, andstill very wide. Many walking bon-nets have no other trimming than afull knot of satin, to correspond withthe lining. The most elegant hats for the spec-tacle are of white gauze. The brimis rather large, and nearly of the samesize all round. These hats are en-tirely covered with a bouillonnc ofblond net, and adorned with a gar-land of rose laurel and yellow cloves. Black China crape is now very ge-nerally adopted by those eleganteswho appear in mourning: it is trim-med with a mixture of soft crape andblack satin. The most fashionablestyle of half-mourning for social par-ties is black soft crape, trimmed withan intermixture of white crape andblack satin. The bonnet, toque, or
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FASHION AHLK l-UUNITUUE. 245 turban, must also be black witli whitefeathers, and the necklace, &c. &c.jet. Half-mourning is also much worn infull dress, but then it is white crapeover black satin: the trimming con-sists of ruches bouilhnne or rouleaus;there are generally two of the latter,each entwined with two narrow sa-tin ones: each rouleau is drawn inthe drapery style on one side ofthe dress, where it is ornamentedwith a bouquet of white roses or li-lies. I must observe, that a doublerouleau of white satin is placed be-tween the crape ones. The bodies of coloured silk ortulle gowns in full dress are now verymuch ornamented with white blondlace, which is disposed on the corsagein perpendicular rows. A full quil-ling of blond lace stands up fromthe point of the shoulder round theback, and a double fall forms an epaulette. A new trimming for fulldress gowns consists of a wreath ofwild endive, formed of the same ma-terial as the gown. The endive isinterlaced, and at the base o

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