(Another costume from the opera, this time from Rossini.)
(Barbiere de Seville). Spanish dress of cerise satin and black lace; black velvet senorita jacket; black lace mantilla.
Reconstruction note: the senorita jacket pictured at left is from the fashion section of the April, 1867, issue of Arthur's Home Magazine. Though this is twenty years earlier than the description above, but the style is probably similar. The description given with the illustration is:
Breakfast jacket of scarlet cashmere, ornamented upon the breast, and epaulets with butterflies with spread wings cut out in velvet and embroidered with gold and red and blue silk. There is a slight spring at the back of the waist, which deepens into a point, ornamented with butterfly to match.
Source: Holt, Ardern. Fancy Dresses Described, 5th Edition. London: Debenham & Freebody, 1887.
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