Extravagance précieuse sous Louis XVI. Robe lévite, Robe à la levantine, Vêtement à la Créole; grande robe de mousseline, Robe polonaise, Médaillon camée.
Robes. Les modes sous Louis XVI. La mode du rococo.
Category: 1789
Élégantes. Extravagance précieuse sous Louis XVI.
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).
Louis XVI costumes 1788-1789.
Louis XVI Costumes 1788 – 1789. Hat à la Androsmane.
German fashion in the last third of the 18th century.
German fashion in the last third of the 18th century.
German fashion in the 18th century.
German fashion in the 18th century. The Georgian Era. Top row left to right: women’s fashion in 1793. Chur Saxon field postmaster. Princely Hessian postilion. Right: Costumes in 1788. Bottom row left… Read More
The Third Estate Takes Refuge in the Tennis Court.
When Louis XVI. finally did not give the suggestion a vote according to the number, the deputies of the Third Estate declared on 17 June 1789 to the National Assembly and sworn, shall not go apart until a constitution was created for France (Tennis Court Oath).
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.
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 Salons of Paris before the French Revolution 1786-1789.
The Salons of Paris, 1786-1789. Fashion before the French Revolution. The Salons of Madame Necker, Madame de Beauharnais, Duke of Bedford, Madame Roland.
