The Grand Prix day (1895). A lady at the races, wearing a pale coloured dress with square patterns. Image taken from Fashion in Paris: the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 From the French by Lady M. Loyd. With one hundred hand-coloured plates and two hundred and fifty text illustrations by F. Courboin... Originally published in W. Heinemann: London, 1898.