18th century
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Magasin des Modes, 8e Cahier, Plate II
Two Busts of women. The first Woman, dressed in a violet satin gown, wears a cap à la Turque. This cap is composed in front with a sort of batiste turban, with very wide black and white stripes, designed… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Magasin des Modes, 7e Cahier, Plate III
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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
Mimic of Modes 