Galerie des Modes, 8e Cahier, 5e Figure

Cook, newly arrived from the Provinces, and who is beginning to take on the elegant tone of Paris.

She is dressed in a fitted casaquin* with sleeves pulled up en pagode with a ribbon and trimmed with a gathered band.

Her headdress is a Bastienne, or a round cap with lappets; a petticoat without trim and a linen apron are the remains of her simple state, but already the muslin kerchief is trimmed and open over her chest, and the chignon seems to be accompanied by a finger curl, with a little favori before the ear.  Coquetry gradually expands over her from head to toe.

* Defined as a “short coat”; given the context of later plates, I believe a casaquin is a fitted jacket and a caraco is not very fitted – at this point in time.