Ball dress. The bodice and petticoat are of the same stuff and color. This petticoat is pulled up with tassels on the sides, a little in back, and on the front unevenly through the pockets: it allows, as it were, the discovery of a second petticoat of a different color, trimmed with a volant of striped gauze, headed with a flower garland, with barrieres of flowers and sequins. Little apron of gauze matching the volant, trimmed around the edges. The body has a top-rounded bib, showing graceful contours. Sleeves with large gauze sabot cuffs, trimmed in poufs, with pearls, flowers, and sequins.
Coiffure in a “nascent tuft”, caressed by a pearl garland moving from right to left and becoming lost under the flower garland, forming a triangle surrounded by a ribbon head-band.
Panache of several raised and wobbly leaves on an aigrette of three straight feathers. Braided chignon, with four curls à l’Anglaise on each side; the favori tilted in front of the ear. A row of pearls for a necklace. Double bow on the shoulder, and a bouquet on the left. The Printer has placed it on the right side to keep from hiding the Figure.
Shoes with low heels, the coup-de-pied* free, embroidered with sequins. Round rosettes, with a large sequin in the center.
* The use of “corsage“, “juppon“, and “jupe de dessous” imply that this outfit is made of a separate bodice and petticoats, like court dress.
** Literally “kick”, possibly the toe?
Mimic of Modes 