Young Miss studying music; she is dressed in a caraco juste à la Polonaise. Her coiffure is a milkmaid cap. (1780) The first toilette of this young beauty is finished. Pending the time of her usual morning walk, she goes to assure herself that her voice has lost nothing of its agreeableness and her fingers … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 33e Cahier, 2e Figure
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Galerie des Modes, 32e Cahier, 2e Figure
Young Governess of a child helping a very young child to walk; he is dressed in a little Sailor suit, but he is equipped with a Pudding Cap and also wears leading strings. (1780)
Galerie des Modes, 28e Cahier, 3e Figure
Caraco à la Polonaise trimmed with gauze, a colored ribbon on the top of the trim: Devonshire or Spa hat. (1780) CARACO A LA POLONAISE, the body loose and floating at the waist. Tour-de-gorge of a reversed Medicis, or raised collar; gauze kerchief, tied en cravate. Spa hat, seen in profile. Another view of this … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 28e Cahier, 3e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 27e Cahier, 5e Figure
Dress called à la Créole, composed of what the French Ladies in America wear: it is a large muslin gown with fitted sleeves that tighten at the cuff; the gown is a little fitted at the waist and freed around the throat in the taste of a shift: it is however very easy and open … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 27e Cahier, 5e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 27e Cahier, 4e Figure
Young Lady holding her infant in her arms; she is dressed in a caraco à la Polonaise with bands and piping in another color: the bands are edged with a little blonde lace. She is coiffed with a pretty straw hat edged with ribbon, with a trimming of gauze in the shape of a mushroom, … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 27e Cahier, 4e Figure
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