#robe à la française

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*a string quartet plays softly in the distance* | IG

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1760s Robe à la française (France)

cotton

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Woman's Dress (Robe à la française and Petticoat). France or England (1760-1765).

Silk with silk and metallic-thread supplementary-weft patterning and metallic-thread lace.

Images and text information courtesy LACMA.

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Rococo at Robe à la Française. Daily introduction of stylish people who gather in "Kawaii Cult"!

Ruka (From Ibaraki, living in Tokyo) Adult, 156cm Today's fashion theme Nobility Blouse♛ Innocent World Stocking ♛ Tablowo Hat, dress ♛ At Alamode Market Twitter @rukaxx

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Robe à la française  c. 1760-1770

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Back to the 1770s -

Top left  1770-1775 Front of robe à la Française (Metropolitan). From tumblr.com/antiquelaceartist 2048X2743.

Top right  1770-1775 Back of robe à la Française (Metropolitan). From tumblr.com/antiquelaceartist 2048X2883.

Second row  1776 Friederike Elisabeth and Wilhelmine Oeser by Johann Tischbein the Elder (Goethe Haus - either Frankfurt am Mein or Weimar, Germany). From tumblr.com/la-reinette 960X760.

Third row  1778 Countess of Fries Portrait by Alexander Roslin (location ?). From Merinok's Facebook pages 1440X1800.

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"Mrs Washington sends home a Green Sack to get cleand, or fresh dyed of the same colour—made up into a handsome Sack again woud be her choice, but if the Cloth wont afford that, then to be thrown into a genteel Night Gown."

George Washington to Robert Cary & Company 28 September 1760

Ordering goods from Great Britain through the London based merchant house Robert Cary and Company, George inclosed his wife’s dress to be dyed and sewn again into a sack (Robe à la Française) or into a Night Gown, which is an 18th century term for Robe à l’Anglaise.

This is interesting as this letter implies that the Washingtons could not find a suitable mantua-maker in Virginia to refashion the gown. Instead Martha preferred to send her dress to England, which could take various months arrive back. Washington’s previous two orders had taken six months and ten months. This demonstrates how dependent the then British colonies were on products from their mother country. 

In early August 1761, after ten months, Martha received her newly dyed gown, which had been sewn into a sack again, back. 

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Beautiful robe à la française made for me by the talented Madame Jejette (a.k.a Anna Nurzyńska) from Atelier Saint-Honoré in Warsaw, Poland. Can’t wait to have it in person!

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Grande robe à la française - Court dress during the reign of Louis XVI.

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a snap from the fête. // IG

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1760 Dress (open robe, sack back dress)

silk

(Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery)

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glamorous dress on instagram

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1763 Antoinetta Coenradina des H.R.R. Countess van Heemskerk by Pierre Frédéric de la Croix (Frans Hals Museum / Rijksmuseum Twenthe). From history-of-fashion.tumblr.com/image/168152700289; fixed spots w Pshop 1245X1564.

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This Mantua is absolutely incredible. It's not only 2 meters wide, but it also looks like the dress is standing in a flower garden, as the embroidery is great and extremely accurate.

1750-1760

Rijksmuseum

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