Ackermann’s Repository Fashion plates for March 1809, vol. 1.3, pages 185-86, featuring a walking dress and an opera dress. Also from this issue, a plate and description of “Harding, Howell & Co.’s Grand Fashionable Magazine, no. 89 Pall Mall” (page 187):
And check out this cool ad, asking for manufacturers of “fancy goods” to submit samples to Ackermann’s (complete with real pieces of fabric!)
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