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Brown leather shoes with ruched pink ribbon
trim and insets of pink leather.

Tan leather shoes with bows and buckles, pink satin evening slippers with bows, and white kid shoes decorated with lace and ivory satin bows and medallion.

Woman's fancy day cap with bobbin lace and tambour work.

Woman's fancy day cap with tambour work on blonde net. 

Kashmiri shawls were introduced by the British East India Company in the late 1700s. These wool shawls’ distinctive designs were taken from the Persian boteh or Kashmiri buta motif, the words for bush, shrub, or flower bud, that represent the Tree of…

This vivid printed wool challis gown is believed to have been worn by Elizabeth M. Kern Mulhallon (1820-1884). The fan-front bodice, still favored by many women in the early 1840s, forms a V at the neckline. It fastens in the back with small hooks…

This lavender print silk gown belonged to Miss Margaret McMurtric (1819-1889). Margaret wore this gown to a ball at the White's Hotel in Centre Square, Easton in 1840 to celebrate the inauguration of President William Harrison (1773-1841). Later, she…

This gold silk dress is an example of a transitional stage in the fashions of the late 1830s. The exaggerated leg-of-mutton sleeve designs seen earlier in the decade have collapsed. Fitted at the upper arm, the fullness of the sleeve is now shown on…

By the 1830s the demands of the expanding populations of Europe and America led to a rapid rise in textile manufacturing. When she wore this printed cotton wrapper, Eliza Porter (1803-1866), wife of James Madison Porter (1793-1862), founder of…

As the Neoclassical Movement waned and the Romantic Era emerged (styles that emphasized imagination, emotion, and nature), white gauzy dresses dominated the global fashion scene. When first introduced, women threw away their corsets (and modesty) to…