#1790s

[cy-lindric]

Now that I'm back from being hacked for skincare scam profits I can show you this 1790s waistcoat I've made !! First pic is the extant piece I've loosely based it off.

[history-of-fashion]

1794 Johann Friedrich Dryander - Citizen Laboucly, meat inspector

(Saarland Museum)

[empirearchives]

Excerpt from Désirée Clary’s letter to Napoleon Bonaparte while they were engaged:

“The thought of you is with me always, and will follow me to my grave. […] Our hearts are much too closely united for it ever to be possible for them to separate.”

The engagement did not work out, and they never married. When Désirée found out Napoleon had gotten together with Josephine, who he did marry, she wrote to him:

“You have made me miserable for the rest of my life, and yet I still have the heart to forgive you. My life is a horrible torture for me since I can no longer devote it to you.... You, Married! I cannot accustom myself to the idea, it is killing me, I cannot survive it.”

Source: Napoleon: A Life, by Adam Zamoyski

[blondebrainpower]

Portrait of a Woman by Villers. French, ca. 1790, active ca. 1781-93

Medium: Ivory

Dimensions: Oval, 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (60 x 48 mm)

[bad-moodboard]

Detail from Robertson's Phantasmagoria, Paris, 1797

[eirene]

Self-Portrait with a Harp, 1791 Rose-Adelaïde Ducreux

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Man's silk tailcoat, 1790-1800.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

George Romney (1734-1802) "Lady Hamilton as The Magdalene" (1792) Oil on canvas

[artist-ellen]

And of course..... our dear Lizzie Bennet.

In the 2005 movie Elizabeth is costumed/portrayed as the "tom boy" of the siblings and wears a dress that isn't too dissimilar to this style, which is based on 1790s portraiture. But now with more period accurate hair. The classics were back in style so piles of curls with fabric, crown, and headband ties were popular from about this time through the next decade at least.

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[somethingwithmoles]

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, Portrait of Nicolas Châtelain, 1791, oil on canvas, 219 x 133.5 cm, Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Source: Wikimedia Commons

[fashionsfromhistory]

Boots

1795-1810

Boots began to become fashionable for women in the last quarter of the 18th century, but their use was limited primarily to riding and driving. Few pairs survive, and the peculiar wrap-around leg on this example is specific to this period and extremely rare. Although not well-fitted enough to provide a particularly secure fastening to the foot, the wrapped leg may have been intended to provide superior protection from dust and moisture than the standard laced closure. Colored footwear was a favored means of complimenting plain white dresses in the early 19th century, and the dark teal blue color seen here seems to have been particularly favored.

The MET

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1790 Man's suit (coat and waistcoat) (USA)

wool with silk embroidery

(Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology)

[empirearchives]

Napoleon and a chambermaid

Oscar Rex

[fashion-plates]

Journal des Luxus und der Moden, 1792-1793

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[bad-moodboard]

Seaweed and coral textile design by William Kilburn, ca. 1790

[curiouscatalog]

From: Shenstone, William, 1714-1763. The poetical works of Will. Shenstone. London : Printed for C. Cooke, 1795?

PR3677 .A1 1795