The fashions (1865)
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Image of a fashion plate engraved and hand coloured for 'The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine' in September 1865.
Before the Bank Holidays Act 1871, it was really only wealthy Victorians who were able to visit Britain's new seaside towns for days of pleasure. Fashion plates gave middle class women direction in how to dress for this genteel new pastime. In this image we see a design for a striking promenade dress with a matching red paletot, an elegant summer cape.
Location: R Crompton Rhodes Collection of Fashion Plates No 164. Early and Fine Printing Collection. F391 S623
Read about Raymond Crompton Rhodes' fashion plates collection
