Cassidy Percoco, Fashion Historian
This is a concept I've had issues with for a long time. I don't tend to think about it (as I prefer to think we've moved past it as a field), but a couple of weekends ago it came up in a paper at an event I was attending and I started trying to formulate … Continue reading What’s the Deal with the Great Male Renunciation?
February 20, 1787 It would be too little for Fashion, which is known to be so light, so inconstant, for people to only change it after a certain amount of time, after epochs, until disgust can arise, and has already arisen; it still wants to change several times a day. That's why it's taken on … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 10e Cahier, Plate I
January 20, 1787 PLATE II Dark green satin is no less used for men's full dress than for women's. This color, which suits the figure so well, cannot fail to be seized by both sexes. The dress suit worn by the man represented in this Plate is of dark green satin. It is all plain. … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 7e Cahier, Plate II
January 10, 1787 PLATE II. An Englishman in hunting dress à l'abattue.* The English felt that coats trimmed with buttons told the gun dog to relax, to drop the trail, and even to go off alone, because it was confused by the buttons; they wear them for the hunt only fastened with pins. Is it to … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 6e Cahier, Plate II
December 20, 1786 A young Englishman in full dress. Here, men never appear without a sword; it is easy to see that in London, this practice is not the same. One can see that in London, they are also fully dressed in a frock coat. The one worn by the young Englishman is of a … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 4e Cahier, Plate II
Mimic of Modes 