Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, December 1815.
“Walking Dress.”
This pelisse is a bit fussy for me, with the large bows and leaves. Perhaps the leaves without the bows, or the bows without the leaves would have been more attractive. You may disagree.
Typically when a pelisse is the primary element of the print, there is still some description, however brief, of the dress worn beneath it. No dress is mentioned here. I suppose it really doesn’t matter what is worn underneath. Any dress will do, as the lady would be unlikely to remove the pelisse while out walking.
Love the crimson shawl, which adds a nice pop of brightness against the pelisse.
The print is described in the magazine as follows:
“Pelisse, of a walking length, composed of blue twilled sarsnet, fastened down the front with large bows of white satin ribbon, and ornamented at the feet with a border of leaves of the same sarsnet, edged with white satin; the bottom of the pelisse, trimmed with white satin, is drawn into small festoons; sleeve ornamented at the shoulder and the hand to correspond; a French embroidered ruff. A French hat composed of the blue twilled sarsnet, trimmed with white satin edged with blue, and decorated with a large plume of ostrich feathers. An Indian shawl of crimson silk, richly embroidered in shaded silks. The pocket-handkerchief French cambric, embroidered at the corners. Shoes, blue morocco, tied with bows high upon the instep. Stockings with embroidered clocks. Gloves, York tan.”
