… because despite their age differences, they were competing key influences on women and fashion. Below you can see Josephine’s early Regency style. That is her daughter Hortense and son Eugene de Beauharnais. A carefree Caroline is shown just before 1800 in the featured portrait. Note how these women take …
… even though Josephine had done the favor of approving Caroline’s marriage. Caroline went to school with Josephine’s daughter by another marriage, Hortense. None of the women liked each other, because each thought Napoleon favored the other. Note the use of coral in these 1805-1807 ensembles. These tiaras and ornaments …
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… we discussed before in great detail, as she was influential in getting rid of Josephine and bringing in Marie Louise as Napoleon’s new wife. Caroline moved with her parents to France during the French Revolution. There she fell in love with her brother Napoleon’s VERY fashionable general, Marshal Joachim …
.. Mathilde entered the fashion world in the 1850-60’s, embracing the early to mid-Victorian styles complete with crinolines. As a patron of arts and letters, it was important that she appear royal even at leisure. (Below: Mathilde’s actual garment; Featured: Mathilde in Court Formal dress)
… Bonaparte (Napoleon 1st’s little brother), was a patron of the arts and beloved by her country. She was also very fashionable. This generation ended the Regency “little white dress” that had evolved by about 1820 into the “very ornamented Spanish and Rococco little white dress”, and entered the “Victorian …
.. were considered the “young and sexy” Royal couple, as illustrated in this portrait as they pose in military and formal (Late Regency) style.
.. for her children continued the royal lines of France and Russia even though the Bonaparte empire was dissolved and Catherina and Jerome were forced into exile along with the rest of the family. Catherine and Jerome had 3 children: Napoleon Charles Bonaparte: served in the army of his uncle …
.. into the 1820’s in France was most profound. It was in riding habits that women had the most freedom. In the late Regency era of Catherine’s fashion influence, the Spencer jacket had dropped its waist a bit, but the military frogging and epaulets were still popular. In this portrait, …
.. into the Rococco style. This portrait of Jerome Bonaparte’s 2nd wife (youngest brother of Napoleon I) in the early 1820’s as skirts began to stiffen and widen into an “angel tree topper” bell shape.
