Woman in the fashions of February 25, 1798. She wears her hair in a pear-shaped bun under a double headband in white jet. Her red wool fringed shawl is tied around the high waist. Simple white decollete dress. Chignon en poire. Double bandeau de jais blanc. Schall de laine, a franges. 25 février 1798. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1798. The illustrations in volume 1 were by Carle Vernet, Claude Louis Desrais and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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