PLATE III. ONE of our Poets, to mark the fashion of Pendulum clocks, which reigned twenty-five years ago, said, in a Play, which has been thus played: One crowns with flowers the interpreter of time. On a little gilded copper pedestal, or a colorized tin one, were raised little cartels,* in the form of barrels, … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 3e Planche
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Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 2e Planche
April 1, 1786 PLATE II. THE woman, on the right, dressed in an apple green Pierrot, wears on her head a black Hat à la Maltoise. This Hat is edged with a ribbon au Diadême.* Its Crown is enveloped with a tuft of pink crêpe, forming several bows. Two ends of this crêpe hang behind … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 2e Planche
Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 1ere Planche
April 1, 1786 ONE of the greatest Philosophers of the era of Louis XIV, said, "I do not know why one rebukes a Fashion which, dividing men's height into two equal parts, takes a whole part for the bust, and leaves the other for the rest of the body." (Surely the three and a half … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 1ere Planche
Cabinet des Modes, 9e Cahier, 3e Planche
March 15, 1786 PLATE III. After having seized on the entirety of a Table decoration, the eyes occupy themselves with the details, and taking them piece by piece, in examining their execution. Each Guest praises or critiques its work, and more or less flatters the pride of the sumptuous Host. It seems to us, therefore, … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 9e Cahier, 3e Planche
Cabinet des Modes, 9e Cahier, 2e Planche
March 15, 1786 PLATE II. Fashion, which, in a Kingdom where the Arts are cultivated with much success, takes over all Crafts, and enslaves them to its laws, gives shape to the Furniture of our Apartments, as to the Coats that decorate us. It corrects them when they are vicious, changes them when they are … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 9e Cahier, 2e Planche
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