Pictured below is a:
Cloak or mantle of levantine silk, of flamme de ponche colour; at the bottom are four narrow satin rouleaus, and also round the hood, which is drawn with white satin ribbon: small square standing collar. The cloak is lined with white sarsnet, and for cool mornings and chilly evenings will be found appropriate and comfortable.
The cloak is worn with a leghorn bonnet "with a plume of white ostrich feathers". "Leghorn" was a type of straw grown from a particular kind of wheat in Tuscany:
Leghorn bonnets are much in favour for plain walking dress; they are also worn in the promenade, but not so generally as silk and satin. In the first case, they are ornamented only with ribbons; in the last, with flowers or feathers.
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