#french historical fashion

[toxtricitylow]

playing around with some historical french fashions on furina (+ neuvi).. I think she should always get big silly hats

18th+19th century mens fashion is one of my fav fav fav things is ever so this was fun 🫡 love being fashion history neurodivergent

#first one is inspired by napoleonic military uniforms (particularly napoleon himself) #second is late 18th century/post revolution #last one is like 1720ish vaguely #theres probably a gazillion inaccuracies i don't really care tbh #furina actually originally caught my eye bc of the historical influences in her outfit... hyvs doesnt usually go really heavily historical #so her design surprised me #i could talk about this for hours #my art #fanart #genshin impact #furina #neuvillette #fontaine #gnsn #genshin impact fanart #neuvifuri #if u squint really hard #of neuvis is early 18th century #french historical fashion

[hoopskirtsociety]

Fashion Details in Art

#victorian era #victorian #historical fashion #historical #vintage #art #fashion plate #french historical fashion #french fashion plate

[die-rosastrasse]

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

#art #painting #classical art #women in art #art detail #fine arts #art history #french art #François Martin-Kavel #pink aesthetic #pink #19th century art #19th century #fashion history #historical fashion #textiles #art lover #historical art #painting detail #light academia

[itsglor]

STUNNING!

#Instagram #historical fashion #historical clothing #history of fashion #fashion history #French historical fashion

[empirearchives]

Black empire style gown

Tulle and silk

C. 1800-1810, Napoleonic era

Centraal Museum, Utrecht

#dresses #dress #centraal museum #CMU #fashion #napoleonic era #napoleonic #first french empire #french empire #19th century #france #history #tulle #silk #pretty #fashion history #history of fashion #historical fashion #1800s #regency #empire style #regency fashion #jane austen #1800s fashion

[crinolinecuriousity]

Dress & Details | c.1890s | British or French

#orange #black #dress #details #evening gown #1890s #french #british #mod fave #historical fashion #historic fashion

[artist-ellen]

All the Historical Mermay’s together!

I had a lot of fun with this mermay prompt list by chloe.z.arts and they turned into a pretty cool collection of illustrations!

Prompt list by chloe.z.arts on instagram.

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#historical mermay #mermay 2023 #collection of mermaids #lnart #ellenart #historically inspired #historical fashion #it’s gonna be mermay #ancient egypt #ancient greece #tang dynasty #french medieval #italian renaissance #mughal empire #edo period #late victorian era

[frostedmagnolias]

French evening dress

c. 1887-89

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#French dress #19th century dress #historic fashion #historical fashion #1800s fashion #1880s dress #1800s dress #1800s #victorian fashion #history of fashion #gothic dress #dress history #frostedmagnolias

[dresshistorynerd]

I've seen a post you've reblogged and added to, among many things about women showing nipples. Can you recommend any ref material (articles, videos, etc.) are share your knowledge about this? Cause I'm curious about that, as nowadays going out in a shirt without a bra makes you indecent, while in like 90s it was okayish? I wonder how it was in previous centuries.

There is a really cool academic paper about bare breast dresses in 17th century England specifically. I think anyone can read it by creating a free account.

Abby Cox also has a good video about the cleavage during the past 500 years in which she goes through also the nip slip phenomena.

I don't have other sources that specifically focus on this subject, though many sources about specific decades touch on it, but I do have my primary source image collection, so I can sum up the history of the bare nipple.

So my findings from primary source images (I could be wrong and maybe I just haven't found earlier examples) is that the Venetians were the first ones to show the nipple for courtly fashion. At the same time in other places in Europe they sported the early Elizabethan no-boob style that completely covered and flattened the chest. In the other corners of Italy the necklines were also low but less extreme. Venetian kirtle necklines dropped extremely low as early as 1560s and they combined extremely sheer, basically see-through partlets with their kirtle. First example below is a 1565-70 portrait of a Venetian lady with the nipples just barely covered waiting slip into view with a movement of arm. There was an even more extreme version of this with the kirtle being literally underboob style, still with a sheer doublet. Though I believe this was not quite for the respectable ladies, since I have only seen it depicted on high class courtesans. They were not exactly respectable ladies, but they did have quite good social position. The second example is a 1570s depiction of a courtesan, which is revealed by the horned hairstyle. By the end of the century this underbust style with only see through fabric covering breasts, had become respectable. In the last example it's shown on the wife of the Venetian doge in 1597.

Around the same time, at the very end of 1500s, the extremely low cut bodice fashion enters rest of Europe. The low cut style was present in the bodices of all classes, but the nipple was really only an aristocrat thing. The lower classes would cover their breasts with a partlet, that was not sheer. Bare breast was ironically from our perspective a show of innocence, youthful beauty and virtue, and to pull off the style with respect, you also had to embody those ideals. Lower class women were considered inherently vulgar and lacking virtue, so a nipple in their case was seen as indecent. Bare boobs were also a sort of status symbol, since the upper class would hire wet nurses to breastfeed their children so they could show of their youthful boobs.

Covering partlets and bodices were still also used in the first decade of 1600s by nobles and the nip slip was mostly reserved for the courtly events. The first image below is an early example of English extremely low neckline that certainly couldn't contain boobs even with a bit of movement from 1597. The 1610s started around 5 decades of fashion that showed the whole boob. The first three were the most extreme. Here's some highlights: The second image is from 1619.

Here the first, very much showing nipples, from c. 1630. The second from 1632.

The neckline would slowly and slightly rise during the next decades, but nip slips were still expected. Here's an example from 1649 and then from 1650-55. In 1660s the neckline would get still slightly higher and by 1870s it was in a not very slippable hight. The necklines would stay low for the next century, though mostly not in boob showing territory, but we'll get there. But I will say that covering the neckline in casual context was expected. Boobs were mostly for fancy occasions. It was considered vain to show off your boobs when the occasion didn't call for it and covering up during the day was necessary for a respectable lady. You wouldn't want to have tan in your milk-white skin like a poor, and also they didn't have sun screen so burning was a reasonable concern.

1720s to 1740s saw necklines that went to the nip slip territory, though they didn't go quite as low as 100 years earlier. The nipple was present in the French courtly fashion especially and rouging your nipples to enhance them was popular. Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), who was an accomplished physicist and made contributions to Newtonian mechanics, was known in the French court to show off her boobies. An icon. Here she is in 1748. Here's another example from this era from 1728.

The Rococo neckline never got high, but in the middle of the century it was less low till 1770s when it plunged into new lows. In 1770s the fashion reached a saturation point, when everything was the most. This included boobs. The most boob visible. There was a change in the attitudes though. The visible boob was not a scandal, but it was risque, instead of sing of innocent and did cause offense in certain circles. I think it's because of the French revolution values gaining momentum. I talked about this in length in another post, mostly in context of masculinity, but till that point femininity and masculinity had been mostly reserved for the aristocracy. Gender performance was mostly performance of wealth. The revolutionaries constructed new masculinity and femininity, which laid the groundwork for the modern gender, in opposition to the aristocracy and their decadence. The new femininity was decent, moral and motherly, an early version of the Victorian angel of the house. The boob was present in the revolutionary imagery, but in an abstract presentation. I can't say for sure, but I think bare breasts became indecent because it was specifically fashion of the indecent French aristocracy.

Here's example somewhere from the decade and another from 1778. The neckline stayed quite low for the 1780s, but rose to cover the boobs for the 1790s.

The nipple didn't stay hidden for long but made a quick comeback in the Regency evening fashion. It was somewhat scandalous by this point, and the nipple and sheer fabrics of the Regency fashion gained much scorn and satire. The styles that were in the high danger nip slip territory and those that allowed the nipple to show through fabric, were still quite popular. The sleeves had been mid length for two centuries, but in 1790s they had made a split between evening and day wear. The evening sleeves were tiny, just covering the shoulder. Showing that would have been a little too much. Like a bare boob? A risque choice but fine. A shoulder? Straight to the horny jail. (I'm joking they did have sheer sleeves and sometimes portraits with exposed shoulder.) But long sleeves became the standard part of the day wear. Getting sun was still not acceptable for the same reasonable and unreasonable reasons. Day dresses did also usually have higher necklines or were at least worn with a chemisette to cover the neckline. Fine Indian muslin was a huge trend. It was extremely sheer and used in multiple layers to build up some cover. There were claims that a gust of wind would render the ladies practically naked, though because they were wearing their underclothing including a shift, which certainly wasn't made from the very expensive muslin, I'm guessing this was an exaggeration. Especially though in the first decade, short underboob stays were fairly popular, so combined with a muslin, nipples were seen. Here's an early 1798 example of exactly that. The short stays did disappear eventually, but in 1810s the extremely small bodices did provide nip slip opportunities, as seen in this 1811 fashion plate.

Victorian moralizing did fully kill the nip slip, though at least they were gender neutral about it. The male nipple was just as offensive to them. In 1890s, when bodybuilding became a big thing, bodybuilder men were arrested for public indecency for not wearing a shirt.

#there was also the new femininity aspect to regency nipple which had to do with breastfeeding becoming fashionable among upper class #it's about the whole motherly thing that came with the french revolution #i can't remember the book i read it from so i didn't go into it because i couldn't remember the details lol #but it did definitely have an effect to the fashion and to the perception of nipple #historical fashion #fashion history #history #dress history #fashion #answers #painting #fashion plate #renaissance fashion #elizabethan fashion #rococo fashion #baroque fashion #regency fashion #will tumblr prove itself to be again more prudish than elizabethans and label my post as mature content? #remains to be seen

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Stays.

Date: ca. 1750

Place of origin: France

Medium: Silk damask, printed linen lining, whalebone, silk tape, and kid leather.

#fashion history #history of fashion #fashion #18th century fashion #historical #historical fashion #stays #france #french #ca. 1750

[fashionsfromhistory]

Hooded Cloak

1780-1790

Fabric from Colmar, Alsace, France

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 972.311.1)

#cloak #outerwear #fashion history #historical fashion #ancien regime #french revolution #18th century #black #cotton #france #floral #flower print #up close #red #blue #royal ontario museum #popular

[kristeenwowart]

17th century dress inspired by my beloved Versailles royal court fashion. It's mostly handsewn, made out of satin and trimmed with lace. It was the first serious historical costume i have ever made. And to be honest, my favourite one <3

Hair, makeup, model and photo by me <33

#louis xiv fashion #baroque fashion #historical reenactment #louis xiv #french #versailles #17th century #1600s #historical sewing #sewing #historical fashion #17th century fashion #baroque #history #historical costuming #costume

[gwynndomhnall]

I admit I forgot to post this, it was for Christmas, Camille and Maxime during a holiday in winder, since Christmas was a no go

#frev community #frev art #frev #french revolution #history #historical fashion #robespierre #camille desmoulins #paris

[empirearchives]

Empire style dress designs made by Jean-François Bony

c. 1803, France, Napoleonic era

#Jean-François Bony #Bony #France #empire style #napoleonic era #napoleonic #French fashion #first french empire #french empire #fashion #fashion history #dresses #19th century #history #history of fashion #historical fashion #19th century fashion #regency #empire #regency fashion #1800s

[crinolinecuriousity]

Opera Cape | c.1896 | French

#opera cape #cape #1890s #1896 #french #19th Century #historical fashion #historic fashion #brown

[artist-ellen]

Historical Mermay prompt 4: French Medieval Mermaid

I was stumped for a while on the direction for this one. French Medieval sounds more broad than it probably is. Either way I eventually picked up on the repetition of blonde women in blue Houppelandes and decided to try it out for myself. Making sure to have long decorative sleeves, and of course (I can never resist) a whole lot of princess hair.

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#historical mermay #mermay 2023 #historically inspired #historical fashion #costume design #character design #ellenart #lnart #it’s gonna be Mermay #digital illustration #medieval princess #French medieval