Polonaise seen from the back, it is of taffeta trimmed with gauze.  Her coiffure is a medium cap with a very simple gauze lappet. (1780) [Note: the text that goes with this plate, and most (if not all) of the rest in this volume, is not original to Galerie des Modes - it has been extracted … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 33e Cahier, 4e Figure

Young woman in a robe à la Polonaise with a fashionable large, white mantelet ; she is coiffed with a parasol hat, trimmed with folded blond lace around it, and surmounted by a bouquet of plumes. (1780) Walking time has arrived.  It sufficed, to correct the abandon of the preceding toilette, to throw one of … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 33e Cahier, 3e Figure

Polonaise of light Satin, trimmed with bands of other Colors, and Gauze Trims.  Cap à tuyaux, belted with a rolled ribbon, attached with a Brilliant rosette on the front and trimmed with Flowers. (1780) TRITON POLONAISE.*  The Author of historic Essays on Paris, said that in the sixteenth century, Men adopted the fashion of large … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 31e Cahier, 1ere Figure

Young Lady in a Polonaise of taffeta trimmed flat with bands of another color: she is coiffed with a handkerchief with pinked borders, fitted with taste and bordered with flowers. (1780) ROBE A LA CLEOPHILE.*  This is a Polonaise, noteworthy for its manner of being pulled up with beads and tassels, in the method that … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 30e Cahier, 6e Figure