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  Title & Description # & Price
1889 Dress & Directoire Jacket

36 Bust - 24 Waist

The dress illustrated consists of a full straight skirt of blue and white striped wool, with a Directoire jacket of plain blue wool.  Pattern consists of blouse, vest, jacket, overskirt and foundation skirt with self bustle.

Yardage - 3 1/4 yds plain wool 54" wide, 5 yds stripe wool 54" wide, 1/2 yd of veiling 44" wide

#1306

$30.75

      

1306 Sandra Chantry     1306 - Vivienne Shepherd

 
1889 Pongee & Lace Princesse Dress

38 Bust - 26 Waist

The Princesse dress illustrated was of écru pongee, with facings of watered silk and a lace front.  Pattern consists of Princesse overdress, blouse and foundation skirt.

Yardage - 6 1/2 yds silk 32" wide, 3 yds lace 22" wide

#1308

$25.50

           

1308 Sandra Chantry                                   1308 Gela Rahl                                                               1308 Cat Frazier

 
1889 Cloth Costume w/Feather Trimming

34 Bust - 26.5 Waist

The costume illustrated is of green cloth with black feather trimming.  It consists of a skirt, which is bordered with feather trimming across the bottom of the front, a foundation skirt and a Princessee-polonaise that is open on the front and hangs to the foot of the skirt on the sides and back.

Yardage - 9 1/2 yds 52" wide

#1762

$28.50

1889 Brown Cloth & Velvet Costume

38 Bust - 26 Waist

The model illustrated is of brown cloth and velvet to match.  The foundation skirt of lining is faced with a breadth of velvet on the left side, where the drapery is open, and with a strip four inches wide the rest of the way around at the bottom.  A drapery of cloth completes the skirt.

Yardage - 6 1/2 yds cloth 48" wide, 2 1/4 yds velvet

#1766

$32.00

1889 Bordered Wool Dress w/Jacket

38 Bust - 26 Waist

The costume illustrated consists of a dress and a jacket to match.  the model is made of old rose wool which is plain one half it's breadth and striped in a darker shade on the other half.  The material is taken crosswise with the stripes at the bottom for the skirt.  The jacket and the fronts of the bodice are of the striped part, the rest of the plain goods.  Pattern consists of bodice, jacket, overskirt and foundation skirt.

Yardage - Approx 9 1/2 Yds 48" wide

#1776

$28.25

1889 Red Matineé (Morning Gown)

38 Bust - 26 Waist

The matineé or morning gown shown in the illustration consists of a skirt and jacket of Eiffel red cheviot, with a white surah blouse or shirt front in the jacket.

Yardage -6 yds 46" wide

#1785

$26.00

1889 Dress w/Handkerchief Borders

38 Bust - 25 Waist

The costume illustrated is of brown wool with white shawl borders, or, as they are now called, handkerchief borders.  It consists of a straight skirt, belted bodice and foundation skirt.

Yardage -8-3/4 yds 44" wide

#1794

$22.75

1889 Surprise Dress

39 Bust - 25 Waist

This costume is a variety of the "surprise dress", and consists of a skirt and a redingote with a jacket front, so contrived, that both the plain jacket and skirt fronts of the redingote can be fastened back, displaying an interior of the gayer plaid material, and a vest and belt of dark blue moiré.

Yardage -5-1/2 yds plaid, 6 yds plain goods, 48" wide

#1797

$30.75

1889 Henrietta Cloth and Crape Mourning Dress

38 Bust - 24 Waist

This dress illustrated is of Henrietta cloth trimmed with English Crape.  It is composed of a redingote and a skirt which is trimmed on the front.  Three bans of crape trim the front of the skirt, one at the middle and one either side, separated by two tucked bands of the woollen material.

Yardage - 10-1/4 yds of 48" wide wool, 2-1/4 yds of English Crape

#1805

$31.75

1889 Mourning Dress for Elderly Lady

42 Bust - 29 Waist

The dress illustrated is of Henrietta cloth, with crape panels let in on the sides of the skirt and crape plastron, collar, and cuffs on the basque.  Pattern also comes with foundation skirt.

Yardage -  10 yds wool, 48" wide and 1 1/2 yds of English crape

#1807

$28.00

1889 Eiffel Red Cloth Gown

38 Bust - 24 Waist

The gown illustrated is of Eiffel red cloth, trimmed with black moiré ribbon, and with black braid passementerie on the plastron and sleeves.  The trimming about the armholes is of black moiré, and the bodice has a moiré ribbon belt and sash bow.  Pattern consists of bodice, drapery and foundation skirt.

YARDAGE –8 yds Eiffel cloth 52" wide, Approx 5 yds 36" wide for foundation skirt

#2726

$38.00

1889 Blue Gray Cashmere Dress

38 Bust - 24 Waist

The model illustrated is of blue gray cashmere, trimmed with narrow black silk braid.  The front drapery is bordered with ten rows of the narrow braid across the bottom.  Pattern consists of bodice, drapery and foundation skirt. (this is a very large pattern)

YARDAGE –8-1/4 yds of cloth 44" wide, approx 5 yds 36" wide for foundation skirt

#2727

$31.25

 

1889 Redingote Cloak Trimmed w/Persian Lamb

40 Bust - 32 Waist

In the model, this redingote cloak is made of dark blue heavy cloth, with revers, collar, and cuffs of black Persian lamb or Astrakhan.

YARDAGE – 4-3/4 Yds, 54" wide

#2736

$13.75

 

1889 Plaid Wool and Cloth Costume

39 Bust - 26 Waist

The costume illustrated is of a large-patterned plaid wool in blue and olive shades, combined with plain material of the two colors represented in the plaid, the underskirt and blouse front being of olive wool, and the revers collar and cuffs and the flat folds of the skirt of dark blue cloth.  Pattern consists of jacket, blouse front, skirt drapery and foundation skirt.

YARDAGE – 6 yds plaid 44" wide, 2'1/2 yds of olive 44" wide, 2-1/2 yds blue 44" wide, approx 5 yds 36" wide for foundation skirt.

#2739

$26.75

     

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