Hi Caroline! (waves like a dork) Fancy seeing you here 🙂 It might be added, too, that the term "round…
Hi Caroline - what you're seeing at the top of the skirt on the green round gown is the drop…
Very timely post. I had a discussion with one of my fellow reenactors this weekend who declared that there was…
Robes a l'Anglaises, particularly the later "quarter back" styles, are my favorites. Simple yet beautiful--late 18th century aesthetics boiled down…
I wonder if they were fitted to provide support? As in, no fitting would be kinda like going braless today,…
Eek, now I am a bit confused - is the grand habit ALSO a robe de cour, but a robe…
Very interesting! The regional variations are so fascinating, and a whole other world to study. 🙂
Oh, even more variation! That would make sense in how to distinguish the variations in the redingotes...
I never found volantes very flattering either, hahaha.
I focused on just gowns this time, but jackets - there a whole other lots of variations!