Pelisse lévite with cuffs and Collar trimmed with ermine, the petticoat of spotted white Satin, the muff of the same trimmed with bands of ermine, and the Belt also of ermine, the Pouf surmounted with batiste flowers and plumes. This Gown was worn by a Lady of quality during the Mourning for M. Thérèse of … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 37e Cahier, 6e Figure
Category: levite
Galerie des Modes, 35e Cahier, 2e Figure
This figure is dressed in a Lévite fitted à l'Anglaise with little pleats around the waist. The Coiffure is a coiffure à l'enfance. (1780) "The farthingales of our mothers, their slashed and flounced fabrics, their ridiculous epaulettes, their pregnant minds[?], this multitude of sleeves of which some resembled veritable poultices[?], all have disappeared, except the … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 35e Cahier, 2e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 33e Cahier, 5e Figure
Lévite simple vue par derrière, coeffure negligée ou grand bonnet à la paysanne avec des barbes. Simple lévite seen from the back; negligée coiffure, or large cap à la paysanne with lappets. (1780) This plate is from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 44.1495.
Galerie des Modes, 33e Cahier, 1ere Figure
Taffeta lévite, fitted and trimmed with gauze around it; fashionable belt. The woman is coiffed with a Spa hat. The dancing master in an informal suit in the fashionable color, and coiffed en herisson. (1780) The times are no more when one was obliged to specify on ball invitations: ladies without hoops. Dancers present themselves … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 33e Cahier, 1ere Figure
Galerie des Modes, 32e Cahier, 1ere Figure
Young Lady carrying her child in a Cradle to breastfeed while walking. She is dressed in a Lévite whose Collar is painted all around and trimmed with Gauze, as are the parements of the Sleeves. (1780)
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