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Pale Green Taffeta Dress, 1775-1785, French.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris.
#womenswear#extant garments#dress#silk#green#18th century#1775#1770s#1780s#1770s dress#1780s dress#1770s france#1780s France#mad paris#musée des arts décoratifs paris#France#French#reign: louis xvi#1776#1777#1778#1779#1780#1781#1782#1783#1784#1785#1770s extant garment#1780s extant garment
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Robe à la française
1750s; Altered 1780s & Late 19th Century
France & England
The ensemble was probably made as a sack and petticoat in the 1750s. In the 1780s, the sack was updated in style. A waist seam was probably added, the skirts reconfigured, and sleeve ruffles removed. The half-stomachers were added at this time and the bodice fronts relined. The back lacing was reconfigured and more eyelets worked.
The ensemble was altered for fancy dress in the late 19th century. Hooks and eyes were added to the bodice stomacher fronts and machine-lace ruffles to the sleeves. The petticoat may have been unpicked at this point.
The petticoat was gathered onto a cotton band after acquisition for Museum display. (V&A)
Victoria & Albert Museum (Accession Number: CIRC.157-1920)
#robe a la francaise#fancy dress#fashion history#historical fashion#1750s#1780s#19th century#georgian#victorian#france#england#v and a#v and a museum#popular
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Portrait of a lady traditionally identified as Madame le Génerale d'Hautville by Pierre Rouvier, circa 1785
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'WE USED TO BE IN LOVE'
'and you actually used to be great'
#hetalia#fruk#nyo fruk#nyo england#nyo france#nyotalia#aph england#aph france#vaguely based on 1780s so independence war and shit#nyo fruk has the potential to be toxic yuri change my mind#Spotify
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Planche 1, Cabinet des Modes, May 15th 1786, Bibliothèque Nationale Française.
This plate has a LONG description, and here's a (shortened) rough translation of the description:
We can say it is no longer desirable for women to dress with great adornment (...) and these fashions are no longer made but for ceremonial gatherings, weddings, formal balls, large meals, which take place in very small numbers. This justifies us to not have often representations of these garments (...), nevertheless since they re sometimes worn, we show them in plates 1 and 2. In plate 1 we can clearly see that we no longer wear the big paniers and even in the most adornment, the fashions have been simplified (except, of course, the court clothes, which do not vary much and can be traces to the clothes of our fathers) (...). The woman in Plate 1 wears a blue robe à la Turque. The petticoat is of the same fabric and colour, the sleeves are made of white gros-de-Naples or another white fabric. The trim of the dress is in white crepe in the shape of rosettes, and in the middle of each is bouquet of artificial roses. The skirt of also decorated with white crepe and rosettes similar to the dress. The cuffs attached to the sleeves are made of cut white gauze. The throat is covered with a gauze fichu, tied at the front with a rainbow ribbon bow, she wears white leather gloves, and a fan. The head is covered with a bonnet also tied with a rainbow ribbon and topped with a garland of artificial roses. The ribbon forms a large bow at the back and holds a white crepe veil that falls almost to the waist, and on top of the bonnet rises a set of feathers: two rose, two blue, one white, and one green. The hairstyle has light curls along the entire front of the head, her hair is pulled up at the back in a flat bun, and two large curls on each side fall down her length. Her shoes are blue to match the colour of the dress, and are adorned with rainbow ribbon.
I found many funny things in this description, like that the magazine writers thought in 1786 that this look was simple, the concept of rainbow ribbon (ruban à l'Arc-en-Ciel) that seems to simply be a ribbon in colourful stripes, and the size and complexity of that bonnet. How about you? Please let me know in the comments or reblog tags, what is your favorite part of this outfit, or even if you'd like to reproduce it.
Also, the plate 2, that is a men's outfit, will be posted soon :)
#18th century#18th century fashion#cabinet des modes#1780s#1786#france#womenswear#blue#blue womenswear#fashion plate
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Vase in the Renaissance style. Bronze, hard porcelain, gilded by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, FRANCE (1780-1850)
#vase#jarron#beautiful#hermoso#renaissance#renacimiento#style#estilo#bronze#bronce#porcelain#porcelana#gilded#dorado#alexandre évariste fragonard#1780#1850#france#francia#europe#europa
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Baronne de Crussol (1785) by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Musée des Augustins de Toulouse.
#élisabeth vigée le brun#musée des augustins de toulouse#french art#french painters#french artist#female painter#female portrait#18th century art#18th century#france#europe#toulouse#french aristocracy#ancien regime#1785#1780s#women in art#art history#painting#oil painting#artwork#female portrayal#women artists#frankreich#french empire#french#portraiture#european history#european art
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Napoleon gets dancing lessons in 1811 and he apparently leaps like a goat 🤭
#cuteeee#the dancing empire#Jean- Etienne Despréaux#Despréaux#Napoleon#napoleon bonaparte#Marie Louise#book#1811#dancing#books: The Lure of Perfection: Fashion and Ballet 1780-1830: Bennahum Judith#napoleonic era#napoleonic#first french empire#19th century#1800s#history#french empire#France#french history
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i’m world history we’re pretending to be 1780s france and i got king louis the 16th and to represent inequality i get to be on my phone while the peasants cut paper (make food)
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The Chevalier d'Éon (1728-1810) was raised in France as the male heir to the Beaumont family. The decorated soldier dressed as a man to serve as a captain of Dragoons, and as a woman named Lia de Beaumont to spy for France on Russia and England. A master fencer, the Chevalier is shown here on the right in a celebrated match against Chevalier de St Georges. This was painted by Alexandre-Auguste Robineau c.1787.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
#book quotes#normal women#philippa gregory#nonfiction#chevalier d'eon#france#beaumont#soldier#dragoons#captain#lia de beaumont#spy#russia#england#fencing#chevalier de saint georges#alexandre auguste robineau#80s#1780s#18th century
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Pink and Green Robe à la Polonaise, 1780-1785, French.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris.
#musée des arts décoratifs paris#mad paris#womenswear#extant garments#dress#silk#18th century#robe à la polonaise#french#France#1780s#1780s dress#1780s France#reign: louis xvi#pink#green#1780#1781#1782#1783#1784#1785#1780s extant garment
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Robe à l'anglaise
c.1785
France
Museum at FIT (Object number: 2006.56.1)
#robe a l'anglaise#fashion history#historical fashion#1780s#rococo era#18th century#ancien régime#ancien regime#1785#orange#floral#flower print#france#silk#satin#museum at fit
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Mégret de Sérilly and his family by Jacques Thouron, 1787
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French Catholic priest and saint Fr. St. John Vianney.
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Notre Dame Bridge, 1788
#notre dame bridge#notre dame de paris#notre dame cathedral#notre dame#paris aesthetic#paris#france#1700s#1780s#steampunk#old france#assassins creed unity#assassin's creed unity#ac unity#victorian#parisian style#parisian vibe#france history#french history#the hunchback of notre dame#paris art#french art#france art#france aesthetic#medieval france#medieval europe#medieval#french riviera#pont notre dame#la vieille dame
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'the toothworm (the hell inside the tooth)' by anonymous, southern france ca. 1780 in on everyone's lips: the oral cavity in art + culture - uta ruhkamp (2020)
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