Fashions of London and Paris, May 1804.
“Promenade Dresses.”
This inexpensive little magazine never provided lengthy detailed descriptions of its fashion prints. And the designs are generally pretty simple in style. The target audience was not upscale, but squarely middle class. Perhaps the brief description along with the print were sufficient to give the home or professional seamstress enough information to recreate the dresses.
Note that the white sleeves on the right figure belong to the pelisse and not the dress underneath, which is somewhat unusual.
The print is described in the magazine as follows:
“Fig. 1. A plain dress of white muslin, with a blue sarsnet spencer; large straw hat, tied down with blue ribbon.
“Fig. 2. Dress of white muslin; a short pelice of lilac sarsnet with white sleeves. Straw hat turned up in front.”
