Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution to the Present Day

adopted appearance Ballet bathing costumes became began blouse blue bodice bonnet boots brassiere brim busk bust bustle chapter cloche clothes coat coiffure collar colours contemporary corset crepe de Chine crinoline curious dance mania day dresses decade decolletage decollete dinner dinner jacket Directoire effect eighteenth century elaborate England English enthusiasm Esthetic extremely fact fashion plates favourite female feminine French French Revolution frills front garments gowns hair hats head hips hobble skirt influence interior decoration Irish crochet jacket kind knee lace ladies lounge suit material middle mode modern narrow neck never nineteen-twenties nineteenth century nineties Paris Paul Poiret perhaps period petticoats plus-fours popular Revolution Romantic Romanticism round satin Second Empire seems seen short skirts shows silk sleeves social sometimes taste tendency tennis tight toilette trimmed trousers underneath velvet Victorian vogue waist waistcoat wear whole woman women women's dress wore worn