When Marie Antionette embraced a new, soft, style..

…in the 1780’s called “Gaulle”,  the French would swing back the other way to make the next fashion era, The “Regency Era” very simple.  All the ornament and fuss of the “Georgian/Colonial Era” would disappear from the 1790’s to the early 1800’s.

Creole women (lower right) embraced the loose, cool, cotton Gaulle style of Marie Antoinette of France(featured and below left) in the Dominican by the 1790’s just because it made sense.