The Corset and the Crinoline. Chapter VII. Starving and Lacing. Louis XVI Dress in 1776. George III.
The Corset and the Crinoline. Chapter VII.
Category: French fashion history
The eighteenth century silhouettes. Baroque, Rococo & Directorate.
The leading fashion designers of the eighteenth century looked to the sixteenth century and later to classical Greece and Rome for ideas and inspiration.
French directoire. Neoclassical fashion in the transition to the Empire.
French directoire. Neoclassical fashion in the transition to the Empire. 1789-1800.
The costumes of the aristocracy. The kings of fashion. France 17th century.
The aristocracy’s costumes. Louis XIV in the fashion of 1660 and 1670. The fashion of long hair. The Rhine Count’s trousers. The court of Versailles.
Gallic Headdresses. Merovingian.
Gallic Headdresses. Merovingian fashion era. Part XII. – GAUL Plate 7.
Création d’un chevalier au 15ème siècle. L’armure du jeune chevalier.
L’ÉCLAT de la chevalerie commença à s’obscurcir dans le XIVe siècle, et s’éclipsa entièrement vers la fin du XVe.
Tournament leaders in the 14th c. Jousting knights.
Tournament leaders. Jousting Knights. From the King René manuscript
Tournament of Knights. 14th century. Medieval clothing.
Historical costumes from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by Camille Bonnard and Paul Mercuri
Henri de Lorraine, duc de Guise, also called Le Balafré.
Henri de Guise, leader of the Catholic League in France, is murdered by the royal guard in Blois on 23 December 1588.
Costume Militaire. Guillaume de Bibra. 15ème siècle.
L’armure et les armes offensives de Guillaume de Bibra offrent de nouveaux détails sur les guerriers du XVe siècle.