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- subject matching 'Fashion Plates: Dresses - Court trains'
A long train was a required part of court dress. It was a separate item made of rich silk, satin or velvet and trimmed with lace or feathers, attached at the waist until the 1870s, or the shoulders in the later 19th century. It had to be at least 3 1/2 yards long from the ankles, and by the 1870s had grown to 7 or 8 yards.
'A Lady of Quality in the Birth day Court Dress, Jany. 18, 1808'
published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
hand-coloured etching, published 1 February 1808
NPG D47510
published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
hand-coloured etching, published July 1808
NPG D47511
'Paris fashions for January: The Empress and her ladies' (including Eugénie, Empress of France)
published in Illustrated London News
wood engraving, published 2 January 1869
NPG D48034