The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . ^aifeeuie le Bandeau dAmour Bairfneuse Fig. 30s.—Various heatl-dresses : from the books of fashion of the time. 480 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Louis XVI., the most staid persons were carried away by the Queensexample. Satire, epigrams, and caricatures (see Figs. 306 to 308), secretlyinspired by the King, were alike powerless against these extravaganthead-dresses. For instance, there was a drawing which represented. Fig. 306.—The tie Bel-Air, returning from the Palais-Royal; fac-simile of a caricature of the
The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . ^aifeeuie le Bandeau dAmour Bairfneuse Fig. 30s.—Various heatl-dresses : from the books of fashion of the time. 480 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Louis XVI., the most staid persons were carried away by the Queensexample. Satire, epigrams, and caricatures (see Figs. 306 to 308), secretlyinspired by the King, were alike powerless against these extravaganthead-dresses. For instance, there was a drawing which represented. Fig. 306.—The tie Bel-Air, returning from the Palais-Royal; fac-simile of a caricature of the period. an architect-coiffeur who had constructed some scaffolding so as to beable to reach the top-storey of a head-dress, and another caricatureadvertised a portable ladder for hair-dressers to move round a ladyshead without disarranging the hair they were dressing. The policeattempted to interfere in the matter, but all they could do was toprevent ladies from visiting a theatre if their head-dresses were largeenough to obstruct the view. But, in spite of all this resistance, theprincipal feats of arms and politics were embodied in the head-dresses, DRESS AND FASHIONS. 481 and the successes of the French navy in 1778 gave rise to sometwenty new modes of coiffure. One of them (see Fig. 305), inventedafter the naval combat, in which La Belle-Poule had figured to greatadvantage (June 17th, 1778), consisted in the imitation of the frigateitself, with its masts, rigging and guns. All
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