Female religious habit at the end of the eighteenth century. Nuns who live according to the Rule of St. Augustine, St. Dominic, St. Benedict and of Saint Angela Merici.
Types of nuns. Habit of different orders. Ecclesiastical Monastic orders.
Category: Fashion History
Rococo. Elegant little dress in striped Indian taffeta, 1778.
Elegant little dress in striped Indian taffeta, trimmed in Pouf, the trim in the same fabric.
Soldiers from Lombardy and Venice in the 16th century.
Italian soldiers in Mi-Parti fashion. Renaissance clothing from Venice and Lombardy at the beginning of the 16th century.
Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox
Frances Stewart was one of the great beauties of the Jacobean court, she was also the patron of Captain John Smith of the Virginia Colony.
Grande Robe à la Française. Court dress during the reign of Louis XVI.
Young lady of quality in a large dress with an elegant bonnet or Pouf called the Victory.
English roses around 1900: history and varieties
English roses: history and varieties
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.
The Luxembourg Palace at Faubourg St. Germain, Rue de Vaugirard.
THE Palace of the Luxembourg is situated in the Faubourg St. Germain, Rue de Vaugirard.
The Venetian gondola and gondolier in the 15th century.
Costumes historiques des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles. Gondole Vénitienne. The Venetian gondola and gondolier in the 15th century.
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess of Bavaria (also called Sisi).
Empress Elisabeth of Austria wearing a courtly gala dress designed by Charles Frederick Worth, 1865, with Diamond Stars by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1865.