An example of transitional style between the classically-influenced "regency" fashions of the 1810s and the more incipiently victorian styles of the second half of the 1820s — an 1823 engraving of a ball dress (with a diaphanous overskirt that can be lifted for certain dance moves, such as the "pas d'été", see image:quadrille-ete-lebas-ca1820. Jpg). Date: January 1823.
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