It's Winter here in the Southern Hemisphere, and the days are short and the nights are cold. So, in order to remind myself that the days will be long and warm again, I present the colour fashion plate from the June 1875 issue of Peterson's Magazine (captioned "In the Rose Garden").
To tell the truth, none of these clothes look suitable for a garden—at least not if you wish to stray off the neatly graveled paths. They certainly look unsuitable for gardening! However they are just right for posing daintily in a garden. Women's clothes in the 1870s were liberally covered in feathers, flowers and flounces, and the wearers were further encumbered by bustles, corsets and trains. The fashions of the decade reached a peak of fussy Victorian femininity that has never been seen since.
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