Paris Commune 1871. Vengereuses. Parisian communards, Federates. During the Paris Commune, the first feminist mass organization was created, the “Union des Femmes pour la défense de Paris et les soins aux… Read More
Chevelure à la Charles XII. Culotte Vert d’Eau. Bas à Mailles Coulée.
Costume Habit court a taille basse et carrée. Chapeau à petit bord plat. Cravate a encadrement de couleur: Gilet de piquée Matelassée.
Coiffure de Merveilleuse.
Coiffure 1er Republique. Madame Roland (1754 -1793). Coiffure révolution française. Album de coiffures histories par E. Nissy. Editeur: Albert Brunet, Paris c. 1860.
Charlotte Corday 1768-1793. Coiffure 1er Republique. Charlotte Corday. Première République française. „Album de coiffures histories“ by E. Nissy. Published 1890 by Albert Brunet. Hairstyle during the French revolution. Charlotte Corday was a… Read More
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.
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
“Incroyable” (incredible) was the sobriquet given to the fops or dandies of the later Revolutionary period.
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.
