Basques Collection (page 6)

WOMEN & GIRL 1859-60
Vertical trimming is fashionable. The brown dress has a jacket body with long basques at the back & ornamented with black dots & a gathered trim

Ladies & Girl 1865
Dress with Swiss ceinture, flounces applied in waves held with rosettes & a red bordered mantle; straw hats & plumes, gabrielle sleeves, bodice with long basques at the back

October 1850 Fashions
Grey caraco dress with basques & skirt trimmed en tablier; white pardessus worn over a green dress; various jackets with pagoda or funnel sleeves; white lace jacket

Racial / Spain / Basques
A Spanish Basque couple

Evening Dress 1839
Man: black pantaloons, cut- away tail coat, top hat & green waistcoat. Woman: dress with lace bertha & basques, over-skirt caught up at the front with large bows

Fashions for July 1864
Girl: white dress, magenta Swiss corselet with petal-like basques. Black trimmed purple dress with long pointed scallop edged basques. Fawn coloured mantle with tassels

Biarritz / Beach 1920S?
Biarritz: view of the beach, from the Cote des Basques

WOMEN & GIRL 1876
Girl: short grey dress trimmed with red ribbons down the front. Women: jacket bodices, one with pointed basques at the back, tie-back skirts & long mermaid-tail trains

Costume June 1870
Dresses comprised of an under- skirt, upper-skirt with apron front & jacket bodice with basques deep enough to form an over-skirt. Girl: tunic with pointed hem & waistband

LADIES & BOY 1865
Boy: Danish trousers & Zouave jacket. Women: bodice with square basques, fourreau skirt (each panel trimmed); hitched- up walking skirt & hooded mantle in spotted fabric

Female Type / Beige Dress
Close-up detail of a jacket bodice with fringed basques, narrow stand collar & funnel sleeves. Her hair is dressed in a chignon with a small straw hat worn tilted forward

Photo / Girl & Chair 1870S
Little girl wears a short dress cut low off the shoulders in a narrow horizontal striped fabric: full skirt, ribbon trim, buttoned bodice with long pointed basques

Biarritz - Basque Beach
La Plage de la Cote des Basques at Biarritz, on the Cote d Atlantique

French Fashions 1891
Wrap-over jacket bodice with gigot sleeves & long basques forming an over-skirt, broad belt & high necked blouse. Gored skirt, plaid blouse & sash worn as a belt & braces

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