Godey's lady's book (1840) (14583482637)

Identifier: godeysladysboo00phil (find matches)
Title: Godey's lady's book
Year: 1840 (1840s)
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Subjects: Women American literature Costume Arts
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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e, pretty, and inexpensive.Dresses of this material are trimmed with ruches andflounces of the same, puffings laid over colored ribbons,narrow black velvet, or ruches made of silk or ribbon. Another pretty dress was of maize-colored silk, orna-mented on the skirt with blonde quillings, put on indiamonds, I1 3 centre of each being finished with a bou-quet of hea tsi ase. The body was trimmed with ruchesand bouquets of heartsease, and the headdress was awreath of different colored heartsease. The most stylish dress of the season was of rose dechine silk, richly braided with black velvet and fancystraw. The over-skirt was of rose thulle, edged withstraw and sprinkled over with small straw buttons.The body was trimmed with thulle, 6traw, and blackvelvet. The headdress was of roses and wheat ears. We have described different styles of dress, but thin,vaporous materials, trimmed with ruches and flounces,will be the favorites, and white the color most worn. FA8HJOW. I II my If .,.,:, .;:: V:
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