Costume Broderies à Roues. Chapeau de Paille d’Italie. Echarpe Ecossaise.
Category: Merveilleuses
Style des Merveilleuses. Directoire style. Costume Plates of French Revolution fashion period between 1795–1799. Drawings by Horace Vernet.
Coiffure de Merveilleuse. French Directoire.
Coiffure de Merveilleuse.
Coiffure 1er Republique. Madame Roland. Coiffure révolution française.
Coiffure 1er Republique. Madame Roland (1754 -1793). Coiffure révolution française. Album de coiffures histories par E. Nissy. Editeur: Albert Brunet, Paris c. 1860.
Juliette Récamier. Coiffure 1st Empire.
Juliette Récamier 1777-1849.
The Days of the Directoire. Costumes under the French Revolution.
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.
Paris after the Revolution 1796-1800.
French Directory. Fashion in Paris after the Revolution 1796-1800. Directoire. Semi-nude women in the Champs Élysées – No pockets – Mademoiselle Mars makes yellow velvet the rage – Rivalry between Mesdames Hamelin… Read More
Pen-Portrait of an Incroyable by Honore de Balzac.
“Incroyable” (incredible) was the sobriquet given to the fops or dandies of the later Revolutionary period.
Fashion History of the French Republic. The fashions of the Directory.
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.
The Salon of Madame Récamier during the Directory, 1794.
The Salon of Madame Récamier. Salonnière during the Directory and Consulates in Paris. Napoleon had her salon closed in 1803 because of treacherous state activities.
Paris during the french revolution 1793 to 1795.
The balls à la victim (The Victim’s Ball). Dances everywhere after the 9th Thermidor. New social order of things in Paris. Metamorphosis of French feminine character.
