1838 Queen Victoria by Alfred Edward Chalon (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh)

Queen Victoria wears a coiffure built out to the sides, a pelerine, and a moiré pattern dress in this Chalon portrait. Chalon also portrayed her mother, Victoria, Duchess of Kent. Alfred Chalon's Wikipedia article is here.

The excellent fashion-era.com site has this about the pelerine, "Pelerine collars came in several  variations. Their similarity was that each covered the very wide shoulders and could aid modesty. The first style was a fine white collar embroidered or lace trimmed and which looked like a cape. The pelerine grew wider as it spread over the increasing shoulder line of gigot sleeves. It accentuated the shoulder width and made the waist of the 1830s look very small and was a popular feature of dress in the Romantic period. 

The width of the lace pelerine reached about 31 inches when at its widest fashion and the pelerines were sometimes attached to a chemisette which was a sleeveless side opened blouse fastened at the waist. Another name for this item was a tulle canezou."

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