The history of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, one of the most ancient edifices in Paris.
Category: Fashion History
Fashion silhouettes of the 19th century.
Restoration (1814-1830), Romantic period (1830-1848), Second Empire (1852-1870).
The Execution & Death of Anne Boleyn.
Memorials of the Tower of London. The Execution of Anne Boleyn.
The Tower of London, today guard-house for the Crown jewels.
The Bloody Tower and the Wakefield Tower, in which the Crown Jewels are kept.
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.
Djouni, once the Residence of Lady Hester Stanhope.
Lady Hester Stanhope was an English aristocrat, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age.
German Knights Family. Medieval Garb. 13th century
German knight in chain mail, sword and shield. Knight’s son in tabard over armour and sword. Noble lady in cotte.
The silhouettes of the seventeenth century.
The disappearance of the hoop in the early years of the seventeenth century caused a change in the outline of the costume worn by the woman of fashion.
Paris. Palais Royal. French scenery in 1822.
This splendid building was commenced in the year 1629, by the Cardinal de Richelieu, from the designs of Le Mercier.
Dame de qualite costume of the court of Charles VII 15th century.
Noble lady with superb head-dress, bordered with fleurs-de-lys, is worthy of the court of one of the most gallant of the French princes.