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| Etching dated 1785. Hats were extravagant, using ribbon, exotic feathers and lace. |
" Miss Dugazon hat". Louise Rosalie Dugazon(1755-1821) was a ballet dancer, a singer and an actress at the Italian comedy. |
Beauté de Saint James. |
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| Cherubin was one of the most beloved Beaumarchais characters. He is a young page who takes love lighly. |
Figaro was the symbol of the change in social attitude. And this crazy hat shows how much creativity freedom was fashionable. |
All those prints were a way of advertise the French fashion in the world. |
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| "Chapeau à la Bostonienne". Being liberal was somewhere very fashionable and so was the american revolution. |
"Chapeau à la colonnie" |
"Chapeau à la Voltaire" |
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| Color prints were a mean to spread fashion in the end of the 18th century. The name of this hat was as complicated as the hat itselh: "Nouveau casque à la Minerve ou la Pucelle d'Orleans" . |
Chapeau à la Cherubin. |
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