Young Lady in a Camlet Redingote: pink Taffeta Petticoat, Hat à la Bastienne surmounted by Plumes and Aigrettes. (1787) "One sees ... that one doesn't wear, with redingotes, pelisses or mantelets ... They are never worn. Pelisses and mantelets seem unknown to the English, from whom our Ladies took the fashion of redingotes. "Some Ladies … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 6e Figure
Painting Costume Analysis: Pamela Series, Part Twelve
XII: Pamela Tells A Nursery Tale, Joseph Highmore, 1743-4; Fitzwilliam Museum M.Add.9 The whole story ends, of course, with Pamela a loving mother. Her views on child-raising are fairly sensible and modern: she insists on nursing her infants herself, she is against swaddling, and she believes that girls should be educated. This specific scene is … Continue reading Painting Costume Analysis: Pamela Series, Part Twelve
Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 5e Figure
Petit-Maître in Wool Coat, the Pockets, the Collar, and the Buttonholes embroidered: Gilet with pockets, also embroidered etc. (1787) Petit-Maître. - "Couldn't one add that the Petit-Maître sometimes wants to pass for a wit because he has a little memory, and a little reading, overall from newspapers, from the wits of authors and from the little … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 5e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 4e Figure
Redingote closed in the front to the bottom with buttons of brilliants. (1787) "The Beautiful Ladies to the Handsome Men. "Mssrs. Agreeable, who believe yourselves to be our masters, and whom we lead by the end of the nose; you who think you have such spirit and penetration: we feel very easy to see that … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 4e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 3e Figure
Morning redingote surmounted by a wide collar. (1787) Accessories made by Rose Bertin, modiste to the Queen, for Mme the Countess Plater: "1786, August 20. - A hat of white straw lined with striped English gauze, 2 bias strips of the same gauze, on the crown bows of white ribbon, cy ... 48 Livres. "A bouquet … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 56e Cahier, 3e Figure
