The Incroyables and Muscadins.
The French directory dandies.
Monarchical reaction – Incroyables and Muscadins — Tape-durs— The Café Carchy — The “Requisition” — Political clubs — The “Petit Coblentz” — Intrigues and lampoons — Louis Ange Pitou, (Pitou l’Auxerrois)
Incroyable and Merveilleuses at the Promenade by F. H. Kaemmerer
Table of content.
1789 Fashion in Paris before the taking of the Bastille – Mademoiselle Berthin – 1791 Fashion under the French Revolution – 1794 Fashion reverts to the Greek and Roman period – Disappearance of Louis XVI costumes – Paleness in vogue – Beauties à la Psyche – Varieties of hair-dressing at the commencement of the Directoire – Perruques came into fashion – The painter David, the revolutionary painter apostate – Debate on reformation costume – The Cothurn – The “Merveilleuses” – Greek robes – Roman dresses – Copé, the noted shoemaker
French revolution costumes. The mysterious conversations.
La conversation mystérieuse. Costume Directoire. Incroyable with bicorne hat and Merveilleuses.
Related:
Louis XIV. , Louis XV. , Louis XVI., Baroque, Rococo, Directoire, French Revolution, Regency, Empire, Restoration or Romanticism fashion era. German Biedermeier.
Directoire 1795 -1804
Source: Histoire du costume par Henry Harald Hansen. Dessins de Ebbe Susen, Mogens Bryder et Kaj Norregaard. Traduit du Danois par Jaqueline Puissant. Flammarion, Paris 1954.
Last third of the 18th Century.
Top row left to right: French Fashion in 1780. Right: German costume of Werther time. (The literary movement of storm und urge to you, triggered by the epistolary novel – The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Bottom row left to right: French Revolution fashion. Incroyables and Merveilleuses of the Year in 1794. Right: German Biedermeier fashion early 1800’s.
On the history of costumes. Münchener Bilderbogen. Edited by Braun and Schneider 1860.
Costume Chevelure à la François 1er.
Costume Cheveux a l’Enfant.
Costume Habit vert saute culotte de Casimir.
Costume Incroyable. Chevelure à la Charles XII. Culotte Vert d’Eau.
Costume Habit court a taille basse et carrée.
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