Description
- Abstract:
- The woman depicted in the center of this plate wears a classical-style, empire waist dress, popular in the early 19th century. The text that precedes this image reads, "During their morning walk, the Parisian ladies cast of all superfluous adornments, so to lose nothing of the breeze's soft caress." Also, this woman is wearing a turban-style hat, popular after Napoleon's campaign in Egypt which, "brought huge vari-colored ribbed turbans, adorned with curved feathers, into fashion, the centre cap of a different colour from the folds that entwined it."
- Notes:
- Fashion in Paris : The Various Phases of Feminine Taste and Aesthetics from 1797 to 1897. Information taken from text associated with images.
Citation
"A Gathering in the Luxembourg Gardens:
Year VII (1800)
"
(1898).
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:86315/
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Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
...The project, "Paris, Capital of the 19th century," initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture.
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