Promenade Dresses

Promenade Dress, 1816, from Ackermann's The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashion, and Politics, 1809-1829. This dress has a ruff in the Elizabethan style as a collar. The matching bonnet is topped by the ubiquitous white ostrich plumes.

Promenade Dress, 1821, from Ackermann's The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashion, and Politics, 1809-1829. The pelisse is dark-violet velvet with French cuffs. The shawl is cashmere and is cream with pink and yellow rows of designs upon it. The muff is ermine. The collar is a lace ruff. The bonnet is violet velvet lined with white satin and trimmed with violet-colored ostrich plumes.

Promenade Dress, c. 1809-1822, from Ackermann's The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashion, and Politics, 1809-1829. The dress above can be seen in color in Gallery of Fashion 1790-1822 from Plates by Heideloff and Ackermann with Introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell and Notes on the Plates by Doris Langley Moore, Batsford Colour Books (London: B.T. Batsford, 1949). Moore describes the dress thus: "Green promenade pelisse of gros de Naples and a patent lace ruff with black satin bonnet ... A green promenade pelisse of gros de Naples with vandyked epaulettes and a patent lace ruff. Black satin bonnet with full plume and cerulean silk under the brim. A perfect illustration for the novels of Jane Austen" (Moore 12).