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Carte de Visite of a young lady


Photographed by Remington’s, New York this carte de visite shows a woman wearing the most fashionable apparel of the early 1860s. For the first time, women wore skirts and blouses, although the blouse is covered with a jacket. That the skirt is deeply pleated and extends more to the back than from the front probably dates it around 1865. The skirt is trimmed with starkly contrasting trimming in a Greek key design, which was very stylish. The jacket was most likely made of silk and trimmed with braid.


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