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French men’s suit

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:28 +0000

The silk thread embroidery was executed at will, creating pre-determined pattern shapes to meet the silhouette and contours of the suit itself. Even the embroidered buttons, reiterating on a secondary scale the florals of the jacket.

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Men’s 18th-century French-style costume

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:14 +0000

Three-piece costume ensemble consisting of an outer coat, a half-jacket and breeches made of blue damask with a moiré effect. The jacket is made of silver tissue with coloured silks, together with a decoration of floral motifs, and fastens with buttons covered with a metal sheet. The pleats on the side are typical of mid-18th-century men’s costume. Moreover, the coat is always open, revealing the inner coat with the shortest skirts. It may have been buttoned up to the waist until 1750 in order to show off the inner lace of the shirt.

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Dresses of young Madrilenians according to their typology (1701-1750)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000

According to the study, in the first half of the 18th century, the young people of Madrid preferred to wear French-style dress, i.e. a jacket, jacket and breeches. On the other hand, Spanish dress was relegated to a much smaller number; 26 as opposed to 9 references to clothing. The French influence in Spain on a cultural level took off with the change of power on the Spanish throne after the War of the Spanish Succession. The French style also included the characteristic accessories of Versailles, such as fine hats with silver ribbons, hairpieces and their own dresses. However, the quality and composition of Spanish clothing was still of a higher quality. From the Notarial Protocols studied, all the imported French dresses were of poorer quality than the Spanish or English ones. Thus, the fine cloth dress from Segobia, lined in black serge, was valued at 240 reales; and the military dress with jacket, jacket and two pairs of fine cloth breeches from England was valued at 480.

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Dressing in the French style according to the occupations of young people in Madrid, 1751-1800

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:36 +0000

During the second half of the 18th century, young people in Madrid showed a change in trends with respect to the professional groups who wore French garments. If at the beginning of the century it was the military, nobles and officers of the Royal Household who most used Gallic clothing, the “fashion” gradually spread to the bourgeois classes linked to education, technical competence, security, doctors and apothecaries. Twenty percent of this group was now above the military, the nobility and the Royal Household (4%, 5% and 6% respectively), as well as clerks, businessmen and those connected with the guilds and crafts. Overall, French-style dress became the fashion throughout the 18th century.

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