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| Keywords: In the Gardens of the Tuileries, Year VII - 1799.jpg Artwork This plate depicts two well-dressed women fanning themselves in a large public garden The woman in yellow wears a typically aristocratic hat more popular before the French Revolution It is high and adorned with a large silk ribbon The woman in the pink and white dress wears a cotton turban which was a style very popular in the late 18th century Simpler hats were more popular at the end of the 18th century because they were supposed to be more 'democratic' than other more elitist fashions Both women wear classical style dresses modeled after robes of ancient Greece These are also adorned with pastel colored ribbons Pastel colors became more popular after the Revolution and were thought to look more 'natural ' These dresses both show a good deal more of the woman's bodies than previous styles as demonstrated by the low cut neckline revealing the décolletage 1898 colored plate 10 x 15 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Published in Octave Uzanne Fashion in Paris the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 London William Heinemann 1898 accession number 1145808208873216 PD-old Les modes de Paris 007 Images of Paris from the Brown University Library 1799 in Paris 18th-century people of Paris Fashion in 1799 Females with white dresses in art Jardin des Tuileries in art 1790s dresses | ||||
