The Facebook discussion on my last blog post was really helpful - it made me realize that I should have been much more explicit about what I was discussing regarding timeframe and class level, and I plan to update the other post to reflect that in a bit. But I also thought it would be worthwhile … Continue reading Petticoat (and Stomacher) Situations
Category: 1780s
Magasin des Modes, 2e Cahier, Plate III
November 30, 1786 ENGLISH FASHIONS. May young people not follow the fashion of the cramped and stiff attitude of the young Englishman shown in this Plate; may they feel that this young man lacks the liberty, the ease which makes grace, that the French possess more than any other Nation, and which must be recherchée at least … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 2e Cahier, Plate III
Magasin des Modes, 2e Cahier, Plate II
November 30, 1786 We said in the twenty-fifth Book of the first Year that the caps à la Turque could bring back the great mounted caps, which went so well with women's faces that they removed and ruined straw hats and chapeau-bonnettes, which most often uglified them, for the reasons we recorded, but which still broke them. One may … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 2e Cahier, Plate II
Magasin des Modes, 2e Cahier, Plate I
November 30, 1786 Again a redingote in a new form. It is buttoned with two rows of buttons to the waist, and with only one from the waist to the bottom. This redingote is of lemon yellow wool, with apple green stripes. The collar and cuffs, slit à la Marinière, are of dark green satin. The buttons … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 2e Cahier, Plate I
Magasin des Modes, 1er Cahier, Planche III
November 20, 1786 ENGLISH FASHIONS. Will we censure the English Fashions, in order to raise ours over theirs? Will we establish a comparison between them, in order to always give the preference to ours? Will we reproach English attitudes, in order to give ourselves a dogmatic air? Will we approve or fault everything which has … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 1er Cahier, Planche III
Mimic of Modes 