October 1, 1786 PLATE III. 1. A Woman dressed in a pink caraco. Her neck is covered with a gauze kerchief en chemise, with two large ordinary collars. Her hair is done all in curls, and she wears on her head a pouf à la Chinoise, of linen-gauze. This pouf is wrapped with a diadême* … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 22e Cahier, 3e Figure
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Cabinet des Modes, 22e Cahier, 2e Figure
October 1, 1786 PLATE II. A young Man in a Dragoon green frock coat, decorated with apple green silk embroidery. This fashion appeared some time ago; but as it had experienced the fate of gold embroidery, which it had succeeded, and which two months had seen born and die, we have not announced it, having other, more … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 22e Cahier, 2e Figure
Cabinet des Modes, 22e Cahier, 1ere Figure
October 1, 1786 Fashion, whose Detractors have called it light, inconstant, flighty, frivolous, is however fixed in its principles; and we believe, in truth, that it is an injustice to treat it so, irrevocably, with such callousness. We see it as constant in seizing all remarkable events, in appropriating them to itself, in recording them … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 22e Cahier, 1ere Figure
Cabinet des Modes, 21e Cahier, 3e Figure
September 15, 1786 PLATE III. A crystal Sugar bowl, mounted in silver, set on a platter of the same metal, held on four animal feet, and having a handle on each side. This Sugar bowl is in the shape of a slightly rounded vase; it has two handles; it is decorated with garlands of flowers, … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 21e Cahier, 3e Figure
Cabinet des Modes, 21e Cahier, 2e Figure
September 15, 1786 PLATE II. ALREADY the pale and somber Autumn has torn away the light coats which befit the summer, and bring forth those of a denser, stronger, softer fabric more fitted to protect from the fury of the frosts. Oh what! the insatiable weather has devoured the days of our pleasures! no more … Continue reading Cabinet des Modes, 21e Cahier, 2e Figure
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