Left: Fashionable Couple in Summer Walking Dress, 1802, from Hamburger Journal Der Moden Und Eleganz, ?1801-2. This man wears a cutaway frock coat over a very simple cravat and moderately tight pants. The high collar and wide lapel of the coat is often called the "Incroyable" style or habit dégagé Compare to Male "Incroyable" or habit dégagé Coat, c. 1795-1799
Right: Male and female Walking Dress, 1810, from Journal des Dames et des Modes, also called Costume Parisien, 1797-1839. The lady rests on a rock, sitting upon her cashmere shawl, so as not to muss her white muslin dress. Her high gloves come up almost to the bottom of her short sleeves. A lace veil falls from her bonnet. Her escort's clothes are designed to draw attention to his slim waist and accent the muscles of the waist and shoulders.
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Fig. No. 3. MORNING WALKING DRESS. [from Le Beau Monde, January 1807]--A plain muslin dress, walking length, made high in front, and forms a shirt collar, richly embroidered; long sleeves, also embroidered round the wrists, and at the bottom of the dress; a pelisse opera coat, without any seam in the back, composed of orange-blossom tinged with brown, made of Angola cloth, or sarsnet, trimmed either with rich Chinchealley fur, or sable tipt with gold; white fur will also look extremely delicate. The pelisse sets close to the form on one side, and is fastened on the right should with a broach; both sides may be worn close as a wrapping pelisse. Indispensables are still much worn, and of the same colour as the dress. The Agrippina hat, made at Millard's, corner of Southampton-street, Strand, is truly elegant and quite new; the hair in loose curls, confined with a band of hair: ear-rings are quite out of fashion. Leather gloves, and high shoes or half-boots, or orange-blossom, brown velvet or kid. |
Left: Walking Dress with Pelisse, 1812, from John Bell's La Belle Assemblee, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies, 1806-1868. This winter walking dress must have been very cold around the ankles where we see a simple white muslin gown falling underneath the heavier pelisse. The pelisse is plum with brown fur trim matching the huge fur muff so popular in the teens. The bonnet has several of the ubiquitous white ostrich plumes on it.
Right: Walking Dress with Spencer, 1813, from John Bell's La Belle Assemblee, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies, 1806-1868. This matching tan gown and spencer are rather simple in trim. The spencer's front is trimmed in a military style with white fur trim on cuffs, shoulders, collar and hem. The brown muff looks warm and matches the darker bonnet.
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