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« Snow, Snowstorm, Snow Queen | Main | A Victorian Fancy Dress Ball, New Haven, Connecticut (Saturday, April 2, 2011) »

January 25, 2011

Columbine

(Another cute flower costume, this time for a young girl, though there's no special reason an adult woman could not do something similar.)

Pink silk stockings, white satin shoes, tulle skirt, short and full; cuirass bodice bordered with flowers; wreath of flowers in hand.

Source: Holt, Ardern.  Fancy Dresses Described, 5th Edition.  London: Debenham & Freebody, 1887.

Posted at 06:26 AM in 1880s, Flowers/Plants, Girls', Victorian |

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