Galerie des Modes, 58e Cahier, 6e Figure

The enticing Ogler, he is coiffed with a hat à la Mexborough and dressed in a striped Coat.

Oglers. – “Paris is full of these ruthless oglers who plant themselves in front of you and fix their immobile and confident eyes on your person: this custom no longer passes as indecent, by becoming common.  Women are not offended by it, provided that it happens at spectacles and on promenades; but if one tries to look at them thus in a circle of people, the ogler will be taxed with insolence, and treated as impolite.”

SEBASTIEN MERCIER, Tableau de Paris, 1784.

One thought on “Galerie des Modes, 58e Cahier, 6e Figure

  1. I love that it is a gentleman in a red suit paired with this little quote about ogling! Usually it's a lady in a red dress.

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