oldrags:

Portrait of a Lady in Blue and Black by Johann Georg Reus, 1769 Germany, the Bowes Museum

The sitter isn’t very pretty, but the dress is interesting.  I like the idea of a black stomacher trimmed in lace on a blue bodice.

GORGEOUS cap!  The lace is so stiffened it almost gives it a bonnet appearance.  And I think it is the top of a pinner apron and not a stomacher, since it looks like the skirt of the apron is sitting in her lap and stomachers almost always go under the front closures, though pinner aprons are pretty unusual!

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