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Fashion and Modes from ancient times until the 20th century.

Fashion History France – La mode française et l’histoire du costume.

Articles – French Fashion & Costume History

Chronology of French Fashion and Modes from Ancient Times until the 20th century.

• The Gallic and Gallo-Roman costume period. (Late Antiquity)
• Clovis. The Merovingian Dynasty. (History)
• The Frankish dominions in Merovingian times. (History, Maps, Places)
• Frankish Merovingian costume history 4th and 5th century. (Late Antiquity, Early Medieval)
• The Carolingian Period 752-987. Reign of Charlemagne. (Early Medieval, Byzantine, Gothic)
• The Carolingian Period 987 to 1270. (High Middle Ages, Byzantine, Gothic)
• Medieval clothing in France. 11th to 13th century.
• French male dress in the 13th century.
• The influence of the Crusaders 1270 to 1350. (High Middle Ages, Byzantine, Gothic)
• Reigns of John and of Charles V. 1350 to 1380.  (Medieval, Byzantine, Gothic)
• Reigns of Charles VI. and Charles VII. 1380 to 1461.  (Medieval, Gothic, Burgundy)
• Reigns of Louis XI, Charles VIII, and Louis XII. 1461 to 1515 (Late Medieval, Burgundy, early Renaissance)
• Reign of Francis I. 1515 to 1545. (Renaissance, Tudor)
• Reign of Henry II. 1547 to 1558. (Tudor, Renaissance)
• Reign of Francis II. 1559 to 1560.  (Tudor, Renaissance)
• Reign of Charles IX. 1560 to 1574. (Tudor, Renaissance, Spanish court dress)
• Reign of Henri III. 1574 to 1589. (Renaissance, early Baroque, Spanish court dress, Tudor)
• Reigns of Henri IV. and Louis XIII. 1589 to 1643. (Baroque)
• Reign of Louis XIV. 1643 to 1715. (Baroque)
• Reign of Louis XV. 1715 to 1774. (Rococo)
• Reign of Louis XVI. 1774 to 1780.  Marie Antoinette and her influence on fashion. (Late Rococo)
• Reign of Louis XVI. 1780 to 1789. Le Pouf. Fashion in the Ancien Régime.
• The French Republic 1789 to 1804.  (Revolution, Directory, Neoclassic, Regency, Georgian)
• Reign of Napoleon I. 1804 to 1814. (French First Empire, Neoclassic, Regency, Georgian)
• Reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X. 1815 to 1830. (French Empire, Late Georgian, Biedermeier, Romantic Era)
• Fashion in the Reign of Philippe. 1830 to 1848. (French Empire, Victorian fashion period)
• The Second Republic. 1848 to 1851. (French Empire, Victorian fashion period)

Selected papers of various authors

• Costumes de Noblesse du 14ème siècle. Histoire de la mode médiévale.
• Noble anglaise. Mode féminine du Moyen Age. 13ème siècle. 13ème siècle.
• Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress of the French King Henry IV. 16th century, Renaissance fashion era.
• Madame de Pompadour. Her political power and general influence to Louis XV. Rococo era.
• Fashion in Paris and London, 1780 to 1788.
• Caraco a´la francaise in 1786.
• The Evolution of Modern Feminine Fashion 1786.
• The Salons of Paris in the 18th century, 1786-1789. Fashion before the French Revolution.
• Fashion under the French Revolution & Directoire 1789 to 1802.
• Fashion during the french revolution. Paris 1793 to 1795.
• Timeline of the French Revolution 1789 – 1799.
• The Incroyables and Muscadins. The French directory dandies.
• Execution of the King Louis XVI . French Revolution History.
• Execution of Marie-Antoinette. French Revolution History.
• Princess Lamballe. Tragedy of the French Revolution.
• Nymphs and Merveilleuses. The ball of the victims.
• French Directory fashion in Paris after the Revolution 1796 to 1800.
• The Days of the Directoire. Costumes after the French Revolution 1796.
• The Salon of Madame Récamier. Parisian Society during the French Revolution.
• Comparison of the French and English Regency Modes 1808-1815. Georgian Regency, French Empire, Neoclassic era.
• Paris Commune 1871. Vengereuses. Parisian communards, Federates.

Fashion Louis XVI 1774−1789.

French Renaissance Fashion

The Galleries. Selected costume illustrations.

• Les Modes du Moyen Âge de l’an 1037 à l’an 1461. The Modes of the Middle Ages. 11th to 15th century.
• Les Modes de la Renaissance de l’an 1461 à l’an 1574. Fashion of the Renaissance from 1461 to 1574.
• Les Modes sous Louis XIV 1643-1715. Fashion under Louis XIV 1643-1715.
• Les Modes sous Louis XV 1715−1774. Fashion under Louis XV from 1715 to 1774.
• Les Modes sous Louis XVI 1774−1789. Fashion under Louis XVI 1774 to 1789.
• Les Modes sous la revolution 1792-1799. The Modes under the Revolution 1792 to 1799.
• Les modes du second empire 1852 a 1870. Fashion of the Second Empire 1852 to 1870.
• France Fin de siècle fashion. Haute couture 1913.
• Les Chapeaux du Très Parisien. Art Deco Hat models, Paris 1921.
• Chapeaux du Très Parisien. Art deco fashion, spring 1922.
• Les Créations Parisiennes. French Art deco fashion 1929.
• Traditional French national costumes. Les costumes regionaux de la France.
• Les Incroyables et Merveilleuses. Drawings by Carle Vernet, Horace Vernet and Louis-Marie Lanté.
• Album of historical hairstyles. Album de coiffures histories par E. Nissy.
• ”Les Robes de Paul Poiret racontée par Paul Iribe” Art Nouveau fashion
• On the history of costumes. Fashion from ancient times until the 19th century, using the example of selected, outstanding costume illustrations
• Famous French women during the 17th and 18th century

French Directoire fashion

Court lady Louis XIV