Welcome, Substack followers! I've consolidated my older Blogger content and my more recent Substack posts onto this WordPress site, and I'll be posting here from now on. Please excuse the bare-bones design - I'm working on bringing this up to scratch! For today, please enjoy this translation of eighteenth-century fashion magazine, Magasin des Modes. 30 … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 8e Cahier, Plate I
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Magasin des Modes, 7e Cahier, Plate III
January 20, 1787 PLATE III If we have hardly showed anything but men and women, women and men, for a long time; if we neglected to separately show different objects which are useful for the toilette or decoration, it's that when we tried last year, many Ladies, apparently fearing that we were busying ourselves too … Continue reading Magasin des Modes, 7e Cahier, Plate III

