I found an excess copy of Napoleone: e l'Impero della Moda floating
around. It's in Italian. Contact me if you are interested.
Fran
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Hi,
I'm working on a 1/12 scale (dollhouse miniature) of the outfit in an 1849
fashion plate. (If you've subscribed to the Costume Gallery, it's part of the
Year in Fashion: 1949 collection, http://www.costumegallery.com/1849/ .
It's the March 1849 Fashion Plate : Lady with Children .)
It might have been this fashion plate instead:
Fashion Plate: Lady Young Boys
She's in a plaid gown with a row of passementerie tassles down the front of the
skirt. Lady Young Boys
She's in a plaid gown with a row of passementerie tassles down the front of the
skirt.
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Hi Lauren,
Welcome to millinary, a wonderful, terrible art.
I can answer two of your questions. however, the question of symmetry (#2
and #4) depended on the year and the desire of the wearer. Sometimes
symmetry was all, sometimes asymmetry was the way to go. Perhaps someone
with more experience
I can't see the plate but...
By '49 bonnets are indeed receding and not hiding the face so much are
earlier ones. By the end of the year fashion plates are occasionally showing
them opening up around the face too. Most fashion plates do still show a
slight tip forward. The back hair being
