Category: 1789

Élégantes. Extravagance précieuse sous Louis XVI.

Élégantes, modes, costume, façon, Louis XVI, Rococo,

Extravagance précieuse sous Louis XVI. La mode des femmes s’ingénie alors à être simple, elle ne fait plus travailler les couturiers et les tailleurs que sur la mode masculine ou les modes anglaises, ces deux patrons de la simplicité d’alors (1780).

The Days of the Directoire. Costumes under the French Revolution.

Public audience, directory, Directoire, Revolution, costumes,

Costume under the Revolution; Versailles no longer the arbiter of the mode – Anglomania, “Anticomania,” Rousseau, and a “return to Nature ” – Blonde perukes – Dresses à la Flore, à la Diane, etc. – The classical cothurnus; the “balantine ” – Pink silk tights and gauze veiled nudities – Impossibles and Incroyables; masculine dress à la Anglaise – Official costumes of National Representatives and of Directors – Barras’ little joke – A lady on contemporary fashions in Paris.

Fashion History of the French Republic. The fashions of the Directory.

French, Republic, fashion, costumes, modes

The fashion of two dresses, one worn over the other, that had been so general in the latter half of the seventeenth century, and the first half of the eighteenth, had completely disappeared in favour of one gown only.