Young Lady coiffed à la Dauphine, dressed in a taffeta Robe à la Reine, trimmed au Nouveau Désiré. This Dress was invented by Signore SARRAZIN, costumer to their Royal Highnesses the Princes. (1778) Robe à la Reine: this gown has the double advantage of being able to be worn trailing or pulled up, at the … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 13e Cahier, 3e Figure
Category: 1770s
Galerie des Modes, 13e Cahier, 2e Figure
Robe à la Versailloise of grey gros de Naples,* trimmed with plain muslin, white tassels, the petticoat of a soft green through which one sees the flounce, ribbons of soft green, wearing a hat. The parasol is of a very soft blue-violet. (1778) Robe à la Versailloise: it is from Versailles that these Gowns appeared … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 13e Cahier, 2e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 13e Cahier, 1e Figure
This Circassienne of a new taste is of sulphur-colored gauze, the trim of soft lilac gauze; the great flounce and the band which covers the trim are of the same gauze as the gown, the base of the sabot cuffs as well; there are only bands of trim in tuyaux which are lilac, lilac ribbons, … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 13e Cahier, 1e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 6e Figure
Young lady in a taffeta caraco, coiffed in a demi-cap; this dress derives from Nantes, in Brittany, where the Bourgesoises of the town wore it to the passage of M. the Duke d'Aiguillon in 1768. (1778) It is said at the bottom of this Print that the caraco derives from Nantes in Brittany, where the … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 6e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 5e Figure
Young lady in a solid Polonaise of Buras, trimmed with a band of the same stuff, in 1778. (1778) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, citizen of Geneva, after having strongly declaimed against the swaddling of infants and the normal manner of dressing them, at last had the satisfaction of making converts: children were raised and dressed following the … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 5e Figure
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