Mourning Attire
Full and Half Mourning Opera Dresses, December 1796
"Round gown of thick plain muslin, embroidered in black; short close sleeves, trimmed with black lace. Small muslin shawl, the border embroidered in black... Read More →
Evening Mourning Dress, January 1798
"Black satin striped dress; short sleeves trimmed with black fringe; black crape trimming round the neck, looped on the shoulders, and fastened before with bugle buttons... Read More →
Promenade and Evening Dresses, April 1805
"Dress of plain white muslin, with long sleeves; a white muslin cloak, with lace let in all round. Straw hat turned up in front, and ornamented with a feather... Read More →
Mourning Promenade Dresses September 1805
"A short dress of black sarsnet trimmed with crape. A shawl cloak of black crape. Black chip bonnet. A long dress of black Italian gauze over black sarsnet. A scarf of black crape. Black chip... Read More →
Mourning Hats, September 1805
"No. 1--A hat of black crape, the crown made full, and the front turned up, ornamented with black feathers. No. 2--A black chip hat, turned up in front. No. 3--A hat of black silk, trimmed with crape, and ornamented with flowers.... Read More →
Half-Mourning Evening and Walking Dresses, October 1805
"A dress of black crape over white sarsnet, the dress made very long, and trimmed and ornamented with black velvet and bugles; a tucker of the same, drawn over the bosom... Read More →
Half-Mourning Hats, October 1805
"Hat of white or grey satin, turned up in front, and ornamented with a plume of black feathers... Read More →
Morning Dress and Slight Mourning Full Dress, January 1807
"A Spanish vest and petticoat of Italian crape, worn over white satin, with a rich border of embossed velvet, terminating at the extreme edge with a narrow Vandyke or fringe of bugles... Read More →
Slight Mourning Dress, September 1809
"Our plate will be found to represent a lady and her infant in slight mourning habits: the former composed of black gossamer net, or imperial gauze, worn over a white satin slip. A demi-traine. A round frock front, and short French sleeves, each edged with a rich Vandyke lace.... Read More →
Half-Mourning Walking or Carriage Dress, December 1810
"A black bombazine or sarsnet round robe, with high bosom, and long sleeves with white Spanish weepers, trimmed round the bottom, at the front, and round the bosom, with a thin chain of crape. A white crape habit-shirt, with high collar,... Read More →
Evening Mourning Dress, December 1810
"A convent robe of black gossamer gauze, with demi-train and short sleeves, ornamented round the bottom, up the front, and on the bosom and sleeves, with a checkered trimming of black bugles, or steel... Read More →
Half-Mourning Walking and Full Dresses, January 1811
"A French grey cloth pelisse, trimmed with black velvet; bonnet of grey sarsnet ornamented with black crape, black flower; black boots and gloves... Read More →
Mourning Carriage Dress, January 1811
" Gown of black Italian gauze worn over white, with long sleeves made high in the neck, with antique ruff à-la-Queen Elizabeth, ornamented round the bottom with a grey flossed silk trimming. A mantle of French grey satin, with collar fastened on the right shoulder... Read More →
Mourning Dress, December 1811
"A robe of fine iron-grey cloth or velvet, with long sleeves and demi high front, trimmed down the center of the figure, at a measured distance, with chenille fur, and clasped in the center, from the bosom to the feet, with lozenge clasps of jet;... Read More →
Half-Mourning Walking Dress, August 1815
"This very beautiful dress, which answers the double purpose of walking or dinner dress, is composed of clear muslin, and is made in a most original and tasteful style... Read More →
Mourning Walking Dress, December 1817
"A high dress composed of bombazine; the bottom of the skirt is ornamented with black crape, disposed in a very novel style. The body, which is made tight to the shape, wraps across to the right side; it is adorned in a very novel style of piping of black crape disposed like braiding, and finished by rosettes of crape... Read More →
Slight Mourning Walking Dress, December 1817
"Round dress of Norwich crape, with two flounces of white muslin broad hemmed or vandyked Spenser of reps silk, trimmed with crape, and surmounted by a triple ruff of white muslin... Read More →
Evening Mourning Dress, December 1817
"A black crape frock over a black sarsnet slip. The skirt of the frock is finished by full flounces of the fashionable chevaux des frises trimming. The body, which is cut very low round the bust... Read More →
Slight Mourning Walking Dress, January 1818
"Round Dress of black China crape, richly trimmed with crimped satin and crape, in fullings forming point; the body is made to fit the shape half high, trimmed with sarin in scollops... Read More →
Half-Mourning Carriage Dress, January 1818
"Bombazeen high dress: the body, which is quite plain, fastens behind. There is no collar, but it is trimmed full round the throat with black crape... Read More →
Morning Dress for Half-Mourning, January 1818
"Morningslip of grey Merino crape, ornamented with black round the border in ranges of leaves; the slip made low, without sleeves; the slip made low, without sleeves, and worn over a cambric spencer... Read More →
Half Mourning Walking and Evening Dresses, January 1818
"For walking, or carriage costume, over this dress is worn a new and elegant wrapping cloak, made of grey mole-skin, or fine Bath coating; it descends to the feet, and is wide enough to protect the wearer from the inclemency of the weather... Read More →
Evening Mourning Dress, January 1818
"A black crape frock over a black sarsnet slip: the body is composed of white crape tastefully ornamented with deep vandykes of black velvet, each vandyke finished at the point by a little light ornament of black chenille... Read More →
Mourning Walking Dress, December 1818
"A round dress of black bombasine; the body is made tight to the shape and up to the throat, but without a collar; long sleeves, with white crape weepers: the skirt is finished at the bottom with a broad black crape flounce, disposed in large... Read More →
Mourning Carriage Dress, December 1818
""Round dress of Bombazine, elegantly finished at rhe border with a broad black velvet, surmounted by a flounce of fine white muslin, headed by a rouleau of of the same... Read More →
Full Mourning Evening Dress, December 1818
"A black crape dress over a black sarsnet slip: the body is cut very low and square round the bust, and is tight to the shape; it is trimmed round the bosom and the back with a rouleau of crape intermixed with jet beads; this trimming does not go round the shoulders.... Read More →
Evening Mourning Dress, December 1818
"Andalusian robe of black crape worn over a black satin slip, ornamented at the border with crape flutings. The robe vandyked with black velvet, richly ornamented with trimming of twisted crape, down each side... Read More →
Half Mourning Walking Dress, January 1819
"A round dress of figured silk, the ground grey, with a small black leaf: the body is made partially high round the shoulders and back, but sloped low in front of the bust; it is trimmed with a puffing of grey crape... Read More →
Half Mourning Evening Dress, January 1819
"A white crape round dress over a white sarsnet slip; it is cur very low all round the bust, and the waist is as short as possible: a full sleeve, which is likewise very short... Read More →
Evening Mourning Dress, February 1819
"Gallician frock of black Italian gauze over a white slip: short sleeves. Head-dress composed of pearl cordons and rich plumes of white ostrich feathers... Read More →