... And this carte de visite photograph, taken by Francis Guy of Cork around the same time Peterson's published the fashion plate I posted yesterday, show the fashions translated into clothes Miss or Mrs Average would wear. As you can see they're somewhat less than elegant, though the lack of colour in this photograph may have robbed the garments of some of their original charm. I wonder what shade they originally were? Bright purple was popular in the early 1870s, a colour made recently available to all by the invention of the first artificial aniline dyes.
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