The sulky Alviane Dressed in a Redingote à l'Amazone and Coiffed with a morning Hat. Buttons. "Over the last two years, buttons have experienced very rapid and well-marked vicissitudes; it is useless to recall them all now: but, only speaking of those with paintings, one must say that all types of paintings have successively been … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 61e Cahier, 6e Figure
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Galerie des Modes, 61e Cahier, 5e Figure
Young Officer in a Zebra Coat, calling someone to give an account of his services. "The zebra of the king's cabinet has become the model of the current fashion; all fabrics are striped, coats, gilets, resemble the skin of the handsome onager. Men, young and old, are in stripes from head to toe: the stockings … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 61e Cahier, 5e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 61e Cahier, 4e Figure
The young Zuma in a Redingote closed with Buttons à l'Anglaise and in a Cap à la Courvil. "When you see a fashion begin to overburden itself, you can say: its end approaches, and in a little while it will be destroyed. As we must not stop variety in fabrics, in colors, in the distribution … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 61e Cahier, 4e Figure
Galerie des Modes, 61e Cahier, 3e Figure
Young Lady in a Winter Redingote and a Hat à la Genlis.* "In the current times, when the majority of minds are much less carried by the idea of pleasures, and when people hardly take any other leisures than reciprocating visits, our ladies dress more in robes parées or demi-négligés, than in caracos, jackets, or pierrots. … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 61e Cahier, 3e Figure
The Fourreau
When people are discussing eighteenth-century gown styles, the fourreau does not rank alongside the polonaise and turque; in fact, it never seems to come up at all. The main, traditional meaning of fourreau was for a child's dress. In Garsault's L'Art de la Lingere, infants are described as wearing various pieces of the layette until they reach … Continue reading The Fourreau
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