Woman in the fashions of the Directoire, 1797. She wears a Spencer hat, linon dress, long shawl and shoes in the form of Cothurne (classical Greek laced sandals). Chapeau Spencer, Robe de Linon. Schall long. Rubans croises en forme de cothurnes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1797. The illustrations in volume 1 were by Carle Vernet, Claude Louis Desrais and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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