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Princess Henriette of France in court dress playing the viola de gamba, c. 1750–52, by Jean-Marc Nattier Lady Mary Fox wears a grey silk hooded Brunswick gown with striped ribbon ornaments, 1767 Women's clothing styles emphasized a narrow, inverted conical torso, achieved with boned stays, above full skirts.
1. A simple trimmed lace and cloth dress English/French cut. (1710) 2. Silk dress supported by panniers. Note that there is no central parting to the dress. The low cut neckline is also less ornamented than a contemporary women's would be. (1718) 3. A group scene of a girl and two boys. Boys were breeched at around 5–10.
These changes were a result of emerging modern ideals of selfhood, [1] the declining fashionability of highly elaborate Rococo styles, and the widespread embrace of the rationalistic or "classical" ideals of Enlightenment philosophes. [2] This French dress, c. 1775 has the fitted back of the robe à l'anglaise and skirt draped à la polonaise ...
France or England, c.1770s. M.67.8.74. The sack-back gown or robe à la française was a women's fashion of 18th century Europe. [1] At the beginning of the century, the sack-back gown was a very informal style of dress. At its most informal, it was unfitted both front and back and called a sacque, contouche, or robe battante. By the 1770s the ...
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco (/ r ə ˈ k oʊ k oʊ / rə-KOH-koh, US also / ˌ r oʊ k ə ˈ k oʊ / ROH-kə-KOH; French: or ⓘ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and ...
France, c. 1775. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.70.85. By the mid-18th century, the mantua had evolved into a formal version principally worn for court dress. The draping of the overskirt became increasingly stylized, with the back panel of the train almost entirely concealed.