Category: 18th Century

Costume and Fashion History during the 18th Century. Clothing of the Late Baroque, Rococo, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Rose Bertin Minister of Fashion at the court of Marie Antoinette. The French Revolution fashion period of Incroyables and Merveilleuses. The Georgians and Regency period.

THE Members who make up the Council of the Five Hundred and One hundred, wear the long white dress, the blue belt, the scarlet coat, (all in wool) and the blue velvet hat.

Costume of the Members who constitute the Council of Elders.

10/8/19

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Directoire, Costume, Membres, Conseil, Anciens

This Council examines the resolutions presented to it by the Five Hundred Council. It approves or rejects them, after they have been submitted for discussion.

Elégante en petite robe de Taffetas de Indes rayé, garnie en Pouf.

10/3/19

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Rococo, Robe, fashion, france, Costumes Français

Petite robe de taffetas des Indes rayé, garnie en pouf de gaze rayée; manches en pagodes, avec des bons-hommes j volant très haut, timbré en chef d’une garniture pareille à celle de la robe, et dominé par une autre bande mise en barrière.

H.H. Raja Shri Sawai Pratap Sinhji Bahadur, Rao Raja of Alwar.

9/18/19

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Rao Pratap Singh life fell in troublous times, when the Moghul house was falling, and adventurers of different faiths and races were striving to carve out for themselves dominions and fortunes on the ruins of the disintegrating empire. Assumed the title of Maharao Raja Shri Sawai (not recognised by the Mughal authorities, and thus treated as personal, and not an hereditary territorial designation).

State Coat of Brocade by Buland Baksh and Ahmed Khan of Alwar.

9/17/19

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Maharaja, State, Coat, Brocade, India, Rajasthan

Rajasthan Maharaja State Coat of Brocade of zigzag pattern in red and gold.

Bourgeois costumes in France at the time of the Revolution, 1794.

8/19/19

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directory, directoire, costumes, indoor, furnishing, france, revolution

FRANCE – 18TH CENTURY. TRADITIONAL COSTUMES AND INDOOR FURNISHING, 1794.

The Public Walk at the Palais-Royal in 1792

8/15/19

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Promenade, publique, Palais-Royal, Société, parisienne,

The elegant Parisian society of 1792 in the gardens of the Royal Palace: elegant crowd, gathered under the trees, discussing and courting.

Rococo hunting party by Charles André van Loo 1737.

5/26/19

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Louis XV, Rococo, fashion, costumes, Charles André van Loo

This painting dates from the most characteristic period of Louis XV’s reign and shows an extremely accurate representation of the society of that time.