April 1835 PHILADELPHIA FASHIONS. EVENING DRESSES. Sitting Figure. -- A printed satin robe, white ground, and pattern in vivid colours of small sprigs in winding columns, and large single flowers in compartments. The corsage is cut very low and square on the back and front of the bust, but rather higher on the shoulder than they … Continue reading Godey's Lady's Book, April 1835
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Godey's Lady's Book, March 1835
March 1835 RECEIPTS. ICES. The Spaniards are famous for their ices; and, perhaps, this is not extraordinary, considering that their climate renders the use of them so indispensable. In this country, we are hardly permitted to form an opinion as to the exquisite relief they afford to a system, of which the energies have been … Continue reading Godey's Lady's Book, March 1835
Godey's Lady's Book, February 1835
February 1835 RECEIPTS. FRUITS IMITATING NATURE. Are made by means of wooden shells; (the color of the stone and containing an almond,) overlapped with an imitation of the Fruit itself, made by means of leaden moulds into which sugar boiled sufficiently has been poured. When taken from the mould, the sugar is varnished with isinglass; and … Continue reading Godey's Lady's Book, February 1835
Godey's Lady's Book, January 1835
Recently I spent some time in St. Albans, Vermont, a town up near the Canadian border. There you will find a small bookstore called The Eloquent Page, which has an entire bookcase full of Godeys, Petersons, and the like, and two or three more with books on fashion history written in the 20th and 21st centuries. … Continue reading Godey's Lady's Book, January 1835
AMBA: The Recent History of Mourning
This episode took me forever to write. I was originally going to start with a blog post I wrote a few years ago, relying on primary sources on mourning from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Then, as I started to go through it, I started to reinterpret a number of the primary sources, … Continue reading AMBA: The Recent History of Mourning
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