Jewellery or flowers?

Under the cheerful sounds of the polonaise, the guests of Otto and Amalia filled the palace halls with their majestic uniforms and fancy toilets. The officers and old revolutionary fighters arrived dressed in the traditional fustanella, while the women seemed adorned with their entire wealth of real pearls and heavy jewellery that covered every prominent part of their dress, even though Amalia tried to encourage them to prefer flowers instead of diamonds and gold.

Creator: Unknown (1837)
Source: Wikipedia Commons