Despite the details that we gave in the preceding Issue on all the forms of caracos, of justes, of Turkish caracos, of little jackets, all has not yet been said.
Magasin des Modes, 9e Cahier, Plate I
Category: 1780s
Magasin des Modes, 8e Cahier, Plate I
Welcome, Substack followers! I've consolidated my older Blogger content and my more recent Substack posts onto this WordPress site, and I'll be posting here from now on. Please excuse the bare-bones design - I'm working on bringing this up to scratch! For today, please enjoy this translation of eighteenth-century fashion magazine, Magasin des Modes. 30 … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 8e Cahier, Plate I
Magasin des Modes, 7e Cahier, Plate III
January 20, 1787 PLATE III If we have hardly showed anything but men and women, women and men, for a long time; if we neglected to separately show different objects which are useful for the toilette or decoration, it's that when we tried last year, many Ladies, apparently fearing that we were busying ourselves too … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 7e Cahier, Plate III
Late Georgian Hairstyles: Fewer Buns Than You'd Think
It looks like I made a Twitter thread on this back in February of 2020, and while I always intended to turn it into a blog post, I suppose it's not surprising that I, er, forgot about it. But I've been thinking about the basic late Georgian hairstyle for a long time, ever since a … Continue reading Late Georgian Hairstyles: Fewer Buns Than You'd Think
Magasin des Modes, 5e Cahier, Plate III
December 30, 1786 In the twelfth Book of the first Year, we showed four new Buckles, seen from the side, to mark the effect on the instep; we show three newer ones here, shown in full-face, to show the length and width. While we showed the four in the twelfth Book of the first Year, … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 5e Cahier, Plate III
Mimic of Modes 