This colorful array of various Victorian Dresses is
from the 1868 annual of Peterson's Magazine. Peterson's
was similar to Godey's Lady Book and contained beautiful engravings
and hand-tinted fashion plates. I tried to collect a variety of different styles
from that year. A few of the plates have been slightly altered from the originals
because when the individual issues were bound together to make the annual edition,
the center dress illustration
was often lost in the gutter of the book. Since the plates were individually
colored by hand, there is often variation in colors between the same editions.
Women used to sit around and compare and discuss the differences between their
individual copies.
I hope you'll
enjoy
these
pictures
of Victorian
Dresses. Be sure to check my Public
Domain Images often. More pictures are added regularly.
