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Reticule

c.1799

France

LACMA (Accession Number: M.83.281.2)

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Took a passementarie class put on my Romantic Recollections. She is so very talented and well researched. Her class was wonderful and fun and I learned so much!

*some of these photos are stolen from others.

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Robe a la Francaise, 1750-1775 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession Number: C.I.59.29.1a, b —————————————————— Notes from Museum: "With the spring," noted Mrs. Eric Pritchard in The Cult of Chiffon (1902), "comes naturally enough a tendency towards bright shades, seeing that `all the world is young,' and the buds are bursting forth into bloom; consequently tender tones of greens, yellows, pinks, and blues most strongly appeal to us. ... in the days when skies are blue and grass is green, we cast behind us the gloomy and cold tones of winter." Spring's irrepressible generosity is suggested in floral pattern echoed in the fly fringe's "virtual" flora.

Notes from OP: Two stomachers shown in images, first stomacher with trim might be original, later ruffled example appear to be modern placeholder. Incredible amount of fly fringe and petticoat shows ribbon embroidery in the shapes of vines and flowers.

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Robe a la Francaise, 1740 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession Number: 1995.235a, b —————————————————— Notes from Museum:

A perfect example of the robe à la française at mid-century, this hand-painted silk dress displays the opulence, Orientalism, and insatiable baroque excess of the time. Layers build on layers; flowers terrace out from the two-dimensional on the textile, to silk flowers, to nets laden with trapped flowers and floss. The silhouette is perfectly of the era: panniers dilate the hips; a narrow waist is achieved by the corset, which further pushes up and supports the bust. A deep décolletage is rendered more or less modest with insertions of bits of cloth, and the sleeves are finished with layers of engageants that are generally just basted in for easy detachment and washing and are thereby useful in keeping the valued dress clean.