1818 Evening dress

"Fashionable Walking & Evening Dresses for September 1818", a fashion plate published in London on September 1, 1818 by Dean and Munday, Threadneedle street.

This is a detail which shows the evening dress only. The dress was slightly daring in the way that it flirts with baring the shoulders. This is about as bare as the shoulders of respectable Englishwomen were allowed to be during the Regency...