Excerpt from Fashion Book: Novelties, Costumes, Mantles, Millinery, Etc.; Autumn, 1874<br><br>Autumn and Winter Dresses brought from Paris. Bands of velvet some half yard deep are often carried across the front breadths, confining the fulness at the back, where they terminate in bows and sash ends. There is very little trimming on the back breadths save a flounce at the edge, and when not froncé at the top they are arranged in broad box plaits one over the other. The skirts are inordinately long and are tied back tightly, giving the appearance of swathing the figure in front.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.