1. Cap à l'Enfant. 2. Hat à la Delphire. 3. Hat à la Italienne. 4. Child Dressed in a Matelot. 5. Little Girl Dressed à l'Espagnolette. Children. - "Children in Paris are very pretty until the age of seven to eight years. As they are elevated to the place of a numerous crowd of individuals, … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 63e Cahier, 2e Figure
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Galerie des Modes, 63e Cahier, 1ere Figure
1. Hat à l'Androsman. 2. Baigneuse à la Warwick* etc. etc. "Caps and poufs are made of goffered gauze and trimmed with plain, goffered ribbons. This goffering is done with irons, which are furrowed in a thousand rather wide and deep stripes. These irons are heated, and the gauzes and ribbons are heated with them, … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 63e Cahier, 1ere Figure
Galerie des Modes, 62e Cahier, 6e Figure
Lady of quality getting up from bed, taking the fresh air at the Tuileries, busying herself with her work to keep herself from being bored. She is Dressed in a white Gown and a Mantelet of spotted Gauze etc. Tuileries ... "Art cannot embellish nature of its own charms, and the most precious lack solitary promenades. … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 62e Cahier, 6e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 62e Cahier, 5e Figure
The young Englishwoman wanting to make her fortune in Paris, in taking the French fashions and dreaming of the means of achieving them. She is coiffed in an anglomane Hat surmounted by Plumes over her hair, falling down over the forehead à la Jaquet etc. etc. "Foreigners must please Paris, for more than one reason. … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 62e Cahier, 5e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 62e Cahier, 4e Figure
The beautiful Zulima Dressed in a Robe à la Sultane and Coiffed with a Pouf à la Turque etc. etc. Furnishings made by Mlle Bertine, modiste to the Queen, for Mme de Versisy. "1786, 15 December. - A pouf bordered with a Turban of white satin, a blonde lace of great height over it, a … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 62e Cahier, 4e Figure
Mimic of Modes 