While taking a break from blogging, we’ve made quite a few ensembles and pieces. Check out the many new web pages and research here: notably a new section on nursing, the history of stays, and a whole lot on Colonial fashion. There are still many ensembles for which the research …
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Women and girls living in the Colonies got most of their ideas on what to wear from England. The English got their ideas from France. The French had fashion designers and royalty who came up with the ideas. French Court fashion led the way in determining what women around the …
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…there were people from royal governors to indentured servants and slaves and everyone in between living in what would become the United States before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. In the 1770’s upper classes kept up to date on what was in fashion in England and France from imported …
…particularly those with ties to the English before, during, and after the War, still wore the elaborate styles through the 1770’s. Women of middle and high class status continued to wear the elaborate French Court styles long past when they had gone out of fashion in Europe, although they backed …
…French Court in his natural hair after forgetting his wig, became natural again. Colonists, by then calling themselves Americans, had been copying French fashion. The Americans along with the French and English pulled back to simpler and more comfortable styles in the 1790’s.
May you dance lightly and find thanks in your heart.
.. and with a change in power in France leading to the French Revolution and reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, the crazy French court costumes were replaced with very natural and very simple looks that had their beginnings in Marie Antionette’s “gaulle” style, combined with a French counter-revolutionary movement (“Fashions de …
… they couldn’t fit through doors. Fashion dictated that breasts be pushed up and necklines go way down. There were never too many tassles, ruffles, fringes, laces, plumes, or artificial flowers for the French. Even the men in French Court wore elaborate wigs and had clothing covered in fancy trims …
