Fashion Plate, Evening Dresses, 1803

This fashion plate from The Lady’s Museum illustrates two evening dresses for February 1803. While the two ensembles are different, both begin with a short sleeved white dress with an empire waist. The figure on the lefts wears a Regency open robe in yellow. Atop her head is a pink feather-trimmed hat. Her gloves cover her arms up to the elbow. The woman on the right wears an asymmetrical green wrap over her dress that resembles an ancient Greek chlamydon or a Roman palla, for this period was fascinated with classical Greece and Rome.