. History of lace. pee, le mannequin precieux, aftuble des marriage to Marie de ^Nledicis : Fron- modes les plus nouvelles . . passe de tenac tells me that you desire patterns Paris a Londres tousles mois, et va de of our fashion in dress. I send you, 111 repandre ses gi-aces dans toute therefore, some model dolls.—Miss IEurope. II va au Nord et du Midi, Freers Henrij IV. il penetre a Constantinople et jV Peters- It was also the custom of Venice, at l)ourg, et le pli qua donne une main the annual fair held in the Piaz/.a of francoise se repete chez toute les St. Mark, on the day of the Asceiis
. History of lace. pee, le mannequin precieux, aftuble des marriage to Marie de ^Nledicis : Fron- modes les plus nouvelles . . passe de tenac tells me that you desire patterns Paris a Londres tousles mois, et va de of our fashion in dress. I send you, 111 repandre ses gi-aces dans toute therefore, some model dolls.—Miss IEurope. II va au Nord et du Midi, Freers Henrij IV. il penetre a Constantinople et jV Peters- It was also the custom of Venice, at l)ourg, et le pli qua donne une main the annual fair held in the Piaz/.a of francoise se repete chez toute les St. Mark, on the day of the Asceiision nations, humbles observatrices du gout (a fair which dates from 1180), to de la rue Saint-Honore. expose in the most conspicuous ])]ace ^•^ The practice was much more of the fair a rag doll, which served as ancient. M, Ladomie asserts that in a model for the fashions for the year.— the Royal expenses for 1391, figure so Micliiel, Origme dellc Feafe livres for a doll sent to the Plate d O r^ s Q fi Eh . 2; <1 M o ^ ^ ^ ^ o a o s I-] a p^ o M (^ cc ^ a cc cc D ffi w To face page 170, i/r CHAPTEK XL LOUIS XV. * Le luxe corrompt tout, et le riche qui en jouit, et le pauvre qui le coiivoite. —J. J. Rousseau. Louis XIV. is now dead, to the delight of a wearied nation :we enter on the Kegency and times of Louis XV.—thatage of fourchettes, manchettes, and jabots—in which thebuttertiy abbes, les porte-dentelles par excellence, playedso conspicuous a part. The origin of the weeping ruffles, if Mercier^ is to becredited, may be assigned to other causes than royal decreeor the edicts of fashion. Les grandes manchettes furentintroduites par des fripons qui voulaient filouter an jeu etescamoter des cartes. It never answers to investigate toodeeply the origin of a new invented mode,—sufficient to say,ruffles became a necessary adjunct to the toilet of everygentleman. So indispensable were they, the Parisians areaccused of adopting the custom of wearin
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