A few years ago I bought a bound volume of Peterson's Magazine in which all the colour plates had been torn out. The strange thing was, however, that most of the plates were still with the volume. Though the plates themselves were undated, there was enough information in the back of the magazines for me to work out where each one went, and what they depicted.
And so I give you for February 1859: on the left a silk dinner dress, and on the right, a morning dress in "drab cashmere".
