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. More:Parisian Bourgeois in the Reign of Louis XII 1510. Renaissance Costume Bateau, Habit Couleur Crotin Culotte de Peau.… Read More

Robe de Mousseline sur un Transparent. Chapeau de paille.

Costume Robe de Mousseline sur un Transparent. Chapeau de paille. More:La Jeune Locrienne. Chapeau de Camille Roger, 1922. Hat Jeune Elégante. Robe à la Levite. Coiffure d’un… Rococo Fishermen at… Read More

The Days of the Directoire. Costumes under the French Revolution.

Public audience, directory, Directoire, Revolution, costumes,

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.

Merveilleuses, revolution, costume, fashion

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

Fashion History of the French Republic. The fashions of the Directory.

French, Republic, fashion, costumes, modes

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.