Fashion Plate Friday

​Godey’s Lady’s Book
April 1861
Description of Steel Fashion-Plate for April.
 Fig. 1.—Child’s walking-dress of blue cashmere, with small round pelerine.  The dress is braided with very narrow black velvet, and has long ends of the cashmere, braided, fastened to a belt falling at the back.
 Fig. 2.—Infant’s robe, elegantly embroidered en tablier; trimmed with blue rosettes; wide sash of blue ribbon, and cap trimmed to match.
 Fig. 3.—Nurses’ dress of brown de laine, with narrow frill at the neck.
 Fig. 4.—Dress of lavender-colored silk, with nine graduated flounces bound with lavender silk, relieved with black velvet stripes; sash bound with the same; body plain, trimmed with folds of the material, crossing from right to left in front; angel sleeves, trimmed with a puffing of the silk, and caught together with narrow bands.  Straw-colored gloves, with two buttons, and worked with lavender-color.  Bonnet of rice straw, trimmed with fuchsia-colored ribbon and Marguerites of the same color.
 Fig. 5.—A wine-colored silk, with three flounces bound with black velvet and a puffing at the bottom of the skirt; then three flounces graduated in their width, and a puffing put on in festoons, each festoon being caught up with a large ribbon bow and ends; body trimmed en berthé, with two ruffles and a puffing; sleeves loose, and trimmed to match the skirt.  Ribbon sash, with bow and ends.  Gloves worked with wine-color, to match the dress.  Frill of lace round the neck.
 Fig. 6.—Green silk dress, having the front breadth gored, and nine very small ruffles at the bottom of the skirt; a row of buttons down the front of the dress; body plain; sleeves with caps, and trimmed at the bottom with box plaits and ruching.  Point lace collar and sleeves.  Leghorn bonnet, trimmed with bunches of cherries; the bonnet ribbon has also cherries worked on it.  Gloves worked with green.