Image: Fashions for May 1868, Plate 1,

Description: Fig 1 - COSTUME FOR HOME: Dress of Metternich green silk, made á la Polonaise. By Madame Prost, Boulevard des Italiens, Paris. Fig 2 - AFTERNOON PROMENADE DRESS: Dress of violet silk with black silk Paletot-Mantelet. By Madame Adolphe, Boulevard des Italiens, Paris. Fig 3 - COSTUME FOR HOME: Dress of slate coloured silk trimmed with ruby silk. By Madame Pietfort, 1, rue de la Grange Batellier, Paris. "The great novelty of the season is the Polonaise dress, with the fronts opening in a slanting direction as shown by the 1st figure of plate 1, and of which we now give the full-sized pattern: this Polonaise style seems likely to be in great favor, and our present pattern will be found to remove all difficulties as to the manner of cutting this elegant dress." (from fashion notes in associated magazine)
Title: Fashions for May 1868, Plate 1,
Credit: The Ladies' Monthly Magazine May 1868 (previously published in Le Monde Elegant, Paris)
Author: Unknown. Dresses by Madame Prost, Madame Adolphe and Madame Pietfort
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