In a message dated 4/28/2007 11:49:41 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
a "blue silk and wool dress, made from a shawl, richly woven border in floral cone kashmir pattern..." I have another fashion plate image somewhere showing this type of "made from a shawl" gown. Again, this doesn't answer your question, either, but in Washington in January, 1816, Mary Boardman Crowninshield described Mrs. Henry Clay in "a white merino dress with a deep border and a shawl to match" and Mrs. Brown, wife of Gen. Jacob Brown, in "an orange dress of the same kind." I may be way off base, but I have always assumed that these dresses had paisley borders--but probably woven or embroidered. The dress I saw at the Met was in the Fashion in the Age of Ingres exhibit several years ago, and there was never a publication to go with that, so I can't point you to a picture. My best memory is that it was in shades of green, and the little butahs, or paisley thingies, were printed in a stripe pattern--may even have been in between woven stripes--and were less than an inch in size. AnnWass ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
