Keywords: In the Champs-Elysées, 1832.jpg Artwork This woman depicted in this plate is wearing a dress with leg-of mutton sleeves that billow out along the length of the arms a very wide bell skirt acccentuated by a narrow belted waistline most likely aided by a tightly laced corset Her hair is in plaits arranged close to her head and covered with an 'Alsatian cap ' or flat beret-style hat almost vertically at the back of the head The little girl is wearing pantalettes under her dress which is fairly elaborate and similar to adult clothing Abstract sources Boucher François 20 000 Years of Fashion New York Harry N Abrams Inc 1967 1898 colored plate 10 x 15 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Published in Octave Uzanne Fashion in Paris the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 London William Heinemann 1898 accession number 1150467129967443 PD-old Les modes de Paris 042 Fashion plates depicting children 1832 Images of Paris from the Brown University Library 1832 in Paris Fashion in 1832 Avenue des Champs-Élysées in the 1830s Red hats in art Hoops in art Fur fashion in 1832 |