French and German Fashion. Last third of the 18th Century.

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French and German fashion at the last third of the 18th century.

French and German Fashion. Last third of the 18th Century.

Top row left to right:

French Fashion in 1780. Right: German costume of Werther time. (The literary movement of storm und urge to you, triggered by the epistolary novel – The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Bottom row left to right:

French Revolution fashion. Incroyables and Merveilleuses of the Year in 1794. Right: German Biedermeier fashion early 1800’s.

Source: On the history of costumes. Münchener Bilderbogen. Edited by Braun and Schneider 1860.

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