Early Victorian Fashion Plate - July 1859 Journal des Demoiselles

Early Victorian Fashion Plate - July 1859 Journal des Demoiselles

Explication de la Gravure de Modes

1st Toilette de jeune fille - Robe et echarpe de mousseline; jupe unie avec haut ourlet; corsage plat, rond et montant; double boucle d'acier; manches pagodes; col et sous-manches de mousseline. Chapeau de paille de riz, rose sur le cote, bouton de rose dessous. Ombrelle de moire blanche.

2nd toilette - Robe et basquine de poil de chevre bordee d'un ruban pose a cheval; manches a larges revers. Capote de crepe avec chou de taffetas decoupe sur le cote.

Toilette de petite fille - Robe et basquine de pique, bordee d'un haut biais de velours; manches a revers, egalement bordees de velours; col et sous-manches de nansouk. Chapeau de paille d'Italie orne dessus et dessous de flots de velours etroits.

(below is a literal translation via Babelfish)
Explanation of the Fashion plate

1st Toilet of young girl - Dress and scarf of muslin; skirt linked with high hem; flat, round blouse and amount; double loop d' steel; sleeves pagodas; collar and under-handles of muslin. Straw hat of rice, pink on the dimension, rosebud below. Sunshade of white moire.

2nd toilet - Dress and basquine of hair of bordered goat d' a ribbon poses has horse; handles has broad reverses. Hood of crepe with cabbage of taffeta cuts out on the dimension.

Toilet of little girl - Dress and basquine of spade, broadside d' a high velvet skew; handles has reverse, also bordered of velvet; collar and under-handles of nansouk. Straw hat d' Italy decorates above and below narrow velvet floods.