Incroyable. Costume Habit vert saute culotte de Casimir. Cravate à oreilles de lièvre.
Costume Habit vert saute culotte de Casimir.
Category: Incroyables
Costume Chevelure à la Charles XII. Culotte Vert d’Eau.
Chevelure à la Charles XII. Culotte Vert d’Eau. Bas à Mailles Coulée.
Costume Habit court a taille basse et carrée.
Costume Habit court a taille basse et carrée. Chapeau à petit bord plat. Cravate a encadrement de couleur: Gilet de piquée Matelassée.
Robe de Mousseline sur un Transparent. Chapeau de paille.
Costume Robe de Mousseline sur un Transparent. Chapeau de paille.
Costume Culotte & Guètres de Peau couleur de Cuir.
Costume Culotte & Guètres de Peau couleur de Cuir. Canne à Parapluie.
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.