Evening Dress from 1860

Magazine image of a high fashion evening dress from the Civil War era. This public domain clothing image shows layers of lace decorating a full skirt on a dress that looks like something Scarlett O’Hara would have worn.

This vintage illustration is from The Lady’s Home Magazine Volume XV, a magazine published in 1860. It was edited by T.S. Arthur and Miss Virginia F. Townsend. They did not identify the illustrator(s) for their publication.

Evening Dress from 1860

This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.