Select Fashions 1801

Afternoon Dresses Cabinet of Fashion April 1801

Lady’s Monthly Museum at 324

Pale pink Chambray muslin gown, with thick half sleeves discovering white muslin ones; the front of the robe sitting close to the shape, and looped down with a brilliant clasp. Hair in curls, and twisted with a wreath of ivy.

Black muslin train gown; cestus of gold, and short puffed sleeves. Black velvet hat, lined with pink satin, turned up in the front with a topaz button; and a White Ostrich and Bird of Paradise feather. White net gloves. Necklace of bullion gold.

Afternoon Dresses Cabinet of Fashion May 1801

Lady’s Monthly Museum at 403.

White crape petticoat. Vest of crimson velvet, with jet beads down the sleeves. Cestus of gold tissue. White crape ruff. Head dress of pink and jet beads, with two pink and white feathers.

Yellow muslin robe, trimmed round the bosom and sleeves with blue or green gimp. Ruff of white lace. Head dress, a yellow net, bound with jet beads; and yellow and blue feathers;--the robe ornamented by jet beads.

Afternoon Dresses Cabinet of Fashion June 1801

Lady’s Monthly Museum at 490

Pale pink robe with Spanish sleeves; head-dress entirely of hair, with high paradise, peacock, or ostrich feathers.

White muslin robe, wth Mameluke sleeves looped up with a button, and trimmed with blue ribband; head bound in Grecian bands, and mixed with blue foil and feathers.