15 April 1786 Let us compare the times when our Queens themselves went out only in a litter or on horseback, with ours, when they are drawn about in well-enclosed and well-suspended carriages, and with well-bound springs; it will not be difficult to figure out which has the advantage. Only two coaches were counted under François … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 11e Cahier, 2e Planche
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Cabinet des Modes, 11e Cahier, 1ere Planche
15 April 1786 Women's Coiffure has been, in all times, subject to revolutions, even in the times of the Greeks and Romans. Fashions changed then as now. In nineteen years, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, his wife appeared with three hundred different coiffures: each one of these Fashion had its origin. Did they join … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 11e Cahier, 1ere Planche
Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 3e Planche
PLATE III. ONE of our Poets, to mark the fashion of Pendulum clocks, which reigned twenty-five years ago, said, in a Play, which has been thus played: One crowns with flowers the interpreter of time. On a little gilded copper pedestal, or a colorized tin one, were raised little cartels,* in the form of barrels, … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 3e Planche
Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 2e Planche
April 1, 1786 PLATE II. THE woman, on the right, dressed in an apple green Pierrot, wears on her head a black Hat à la Maltoise. This Hat is edged with a ribbon au Diadême.* Its Crown is enveloped with a tuft of pink crêpe, forming several bows. Two ends of this crêpe hang behind … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 2e Planche
Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 1ere Planche
April 1, 1786 ONE of the greatest Philosophers of the era of Louis XIV, said, "I do not know why one rebukes a Fashion which, dividing men's height into two equal parts, takes a whole part for the bust, and leaves the other for the rest of the body." (Surely the three and a half … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 10e Cahier, 1ere Planche
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