Image: Dancing-Dress-1809
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Description: High-waisted dancing dress from 1809, with a slit overskirt -- rather modern-looking in some respects (in a way that most Victorian or eighteenth-century fashions could never be). The woman seems to be wearing hoop earrings which were relatively large by the standards of the time.
Title: Dancing-Dress-1809
Credit: Scanned by H. Churchyard from The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen edited by Penelope Hughes-Hallett. Ultimate source: Ackermann's Repository, February 1809
Author: Unknown 1809 artist
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License: Public domain
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