Indumentaria; bata; ropa interior; siglo XVIII; moda femenina; moda; Museo del Traje - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:10:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Indumentaria; bata; ropa interior; siglo XVIII; moda femenina; moda; Museo del Traje - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Bata https://historylab.es/bata/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bata Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:14 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/bata/ Illustrated piece of women's clothing with large volumes

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]]> This garment was internationally known as “robe à la française”, although in Spain it was called a “bata”. The gown is characterised by flat pleats that emerge from the neck and run down the back to end in a train. These were only worn by women of a higher social class for various reasons: the cost of the materials and the amount of fabric used, as well as the need for help from other people (generally servants) to dress and undress. At the beginning of the 18th century, specifically during the regency of Louis XV, the canon of beauty evolved to models with large pleats. This type of model became known as “robe a la Watteau” although their corresponding pleats were also known as “Watteau pleats” as they were depicted perceptually by the French painter. As the century progressed, the pleats evolved: in 1730 they were very wide from one end of the shoulders to the other, while in the late 1780s they began to narrow. To wear a gown correctly, women had to wear two undergarments: on the upper part of the body, a cotilla (or corset) fitted with vallenas to fit the female figure, to which was added at the bottom a tontillo, or cupper, which was a frame of hoops giving it a characteristic shape.

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