Cassidy Percoco, Fashion Historian
30 January 1787 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 in points, and in the back with a very thick tuft of … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 8e Cahier, Plate II
January 10, 1787 Two Busts of women. The Woman dressed in a pink gown wears a demi-négligé cap. This cap has a double ruffle of white blonde lace, in large pleats. Its crown or base, very puffed, is of blue crêpe, with its two ends hanging behind, on the shoulders, in the form of a … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 6e Cahier, Plate III
January 10, 1787 No-one can deny that our French Ladies cause their fashions to be adopted by Ladies of nearly all other Kingdoms; however, we must admit that there are restitutions that they make to nearly all. Did they not borrow, at least two years ago, Polonaises, Anglaises, Turques, Chinoises? Now they borrow Espagnoles. It … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 6e Cahier, Plate I
December 30, 1786 FRENCH FASHIONS. We said in the second Book of this second Year that women hardly go out in the morning but in night caps, when they aren't dressed; we should add here that many wear a chapeau-bonnette over the night cap. In this manner, they give an air of half-dress which saves them … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 5e Cahier, Plate II
December 20, 1786 FRENCH FASHIONS. Two women's Busts. The first, dressed in a pink satin gown, wears a hat with a very high crown, made of satin with pink stripes and Sky blue stripes, trimmed on the front in three rows of large bows of yellow ribbons with green plain stripes down the middle and … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 4e Cahier, Plate III
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