Cabinet des Modes. Femme en fourreau vert à la Levite.

Cabinet des Modes. Les robes & fourreaux à L’Angloise, à la Turque, à la Janséniste, à la Circassienne. Rococo fashion history.

Femme en fourreau vert à la Levite

Cabinet des Modes. Paris November 1785. Costume “Femme en fourreau vert à la Levite”

(Original description)
PLANCHE  PREMIERE. (Ier Cahier. 15 Novembre 1785). 

ELLE représente une Femme en fourreau vert à la Levite *(1), en chapeau de paille à haute forme, garni d’un ruban violet, avec nœud ou cocarde, les deux bouts du ruban pendans d’environ deux on trois pouces.
Sa coëffure est un demi-hériffon terminé par deux boucles flottantes.
Les cheveux pendans derrière, à la Conseillése.
Les pendans d’oreille font de grands anneaux branlans.
Le fichu de linon, garni.
Le mantelet de satin noir à pois.
Tablier de linon.
Jupon de satin violet.
Souliers blancs à rosettes violettes.
Les robes & fourreaux à L’Angloise, à la Turque, à la Janséniste, à la Circassienne, font encore de mode.

Rubans les plus frais.

1°. Couleur de queue de serin, ou soufre tendre,
2°. Rayés en trois couleurs; savoir, queue de serin, gros vert & violet d’Evêque,
3°. Gros vert uni.
4°. Violet d’Evêque.

Satins unis pour Robes de femme.

Violet & gros vert mêlés, glacés.
Bleu de Roi & souci mêlés, glacés.
Violet & souci mêlés, glacés.
Vert & souci mêlés, glacés.
Gros vert uni.
Violet uni.
Casimir uni.

Gazes

D’Italie. A la d’Artois. A la Crême Angloise. Soufflée.
Malgré l’hiver, beaucoup de Femmes se mettent encore en blanc; c’est-à-dire en robe de mousseline.

*(1) Nous avertissons MM. les Souscripteurs que dans toutes; les descriptions , les mots en caractère italique feront toujours des termes techniques.
Associated to French fashion history:

  1. Ladies hat styles from 1776-1790 by Rose Bertin.
  2. The Salons of Paris before the French Revolution 1786-1789.
  3. The Evolution of Modern Feminine Fashion 1786.
  4. Caraco a´la francaise in 1786.
  5. Fashion in Paris and London, 1780 to 1788.
  6. Reign of Louis XIV. 1643 to 1715.
  7. Reign of Louis XV. 1715 to 1774.
  8. Reign of Louis XVI. 1774 to 1780.
  9. Reign of Louis XVI., 1780 to 1789.
  10. The French Republic 1789 to 1804.
  11. Reign of Napoleon I. 1804 to 1814.
Note:  Parures. Les modes sous Louis XVI. 1774-1789

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