This Circassienne of a new taste is of sulphur-colored gauze, the trim of soft lilac gauze; the great flounce and the band which covers the trim are of the same gauze as the gown, the base of the sabot cuffs as well; there are only bands of trim in tuyaux which are lilac, lilac ribbons, … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 13e Cahier, 1e Figure
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Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 6e Figure
Young lady in a taffeta caraco, coiffed in a demi-cap; this dress derives from Nantes, in Brittany, where the Bourgesoises of the town wore it to the passage of M. the Duke d'Aiguillon in 1768. (1778) It is said at the bottom of this Print that the caraco derives from Nantes in Brittany, where the … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 6e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 5e Figure
Young lady in a solid Polonaise of Buras, trimmed with a band of the same stuff, in 1778. (1778) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, citizen of Geneva, after having strongly declaimed against the swaddling of infants and the normal manner of dressing them, at last had the satisfaction of making converts: children were raised and dressed following the … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 5e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 4e Figure
Genteel and poetic abbé, reading with enthusiasm a piece of verse that he composed. (1778) The costume of what one calls an Abbé has singularly changed since the beginning of the eighteenth century; one should not at any time be surprised by this change and imagine that the young Abbés of our time are different … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 4e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 2e Figure
THE DISTRACTED WOMAN. This woman, after being entirely dressed, remembers that she has not washed her feet, and is brought a basin by her chambermaid. Her Gown is of wine-grey Gourgouran* trimmed with the same, the ribbon around the trim is sky blue, tied at intervals with little flowers. The chambermaid is in a caraco … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 2e Figure
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