Journal for Factory, Manufacture, Trade, Art and Fashion, 1796, Plate IV
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Standing woman dressed in a polka-dotted gown with a high waist and three-quarter sleeves. Her hairstyle decorated with a diadem and two ostrich feathers. Further accessories: earring in the right ear, necklaces, corsage with flowers, long gloves, fan. Seated woman dressed in a gown with a lapel, hem decorated with a floral and leaf pattern. Around her head a striped cloth and feathers (?). Further accessories: earrings, sash, long gloves, fan. From the fashion magazine Journal für Fabrik, Manufaktur, Handlung, Kunst und Mode, 1791-1808. The figures are taken from the fashion magazine Gallery of Fashion, May 1796, published by Nicolaus Heideloff, London, 1794-1803.
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