Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

‘Evening Dress’, July 1829 NPG D47645

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in R. Ackermann’s Repository of Fashions

Described in issue number 7 of the magazine:
A dress of crepe aerophane over satin to correspond; the colour is the deepest shade of bleu du Roi. The corsage is cut extremely low, ornamented round the bust with a light trimming in crepe, and marked in the centre of the bust and back with a narrow satin rouleau. The sleeves are extremely short and full. Satin ceinture fastened behind in short bows without ends. The skirt is of an easy fulness, and finished by a… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.