Below are a series of fashion plates taken from Women’s Magazines from the late 1840-1860s most taken from the on-line collections of the New York City Public Library. I have two bonnet patterns and one hat pattern that cover this period. There frames dresses in similar ways to the fashion plates could match any of these plates.
New York Public Library. Paris 1849
New York Public Library. 1852
New York Public Library. 1852 English
New York Public Library.
Harpers New Monthly May 1854
New York Public Library.
Harpers New Monthly May 1854
New York Public Library.
Harpers New Monthly May 1855
New York Public Library.
Harpers New Monthly May 1855
New York Public Library.
Harpers New Monthly April 1855
New York Public Library. 1857 English
New York Public Library. 1857 English
New York Public Library.
English Women’s Domestic Magazine 1861
New York Public Library. Peterson’s July 1862
New York Public Library. Peterson’s Feb. 1862
New York Public Library. 1860s
New York Public Library. Peterson’s Jan. 1864