Fashion During the French Revolution


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  Sans-culotte
blue carmagnole jacket
striped tricolor
pantaloons
red sash
gray or black felt hat with tricolor band
and cockade
hair in pigtail

1793

 

 Patriot
redingote of brown cloth
red cloth collar and lapels
vest with striped band
pantaloons
black jockey boots, straps, brown cuffs
red woolen cap
tassel
tricolor baldric

1790

 

An elegant or muscadine
frockcoat
claw hammer tail
fancy vest
volded lace edged cravat fastened with jewel
knee breeches with ribbon loops
striped silk stockings
black jockey boots, straps, brown cuffs
felt hat
silk cord
tricolor rosette

1792

 Muscadine
redingote frockcoat
claw hammer tail
tabs, buttons
satin collar
knee breeches with ribbon loops
black jockey boots, straps, brown cuffs
hair in Cadogan
felt hat
watch charm

 Cloth redingote
felt hat with ribbon and buckle
hair in cadogan
cotted cotten gown
gauze fichu

 Gown of fine cloth
double collars
satin loops on jacket tail
tulle and satin fichus
straw hat with satin rosettes

 Striped cotten gown
short jacket
gauze fichu
bowknot in back and at bosom
bonnet of ribbon and ostrich plumes
hair in cadogan

 Accessories

All images and text from The Mode In Costume by R. Turner Wilcox, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1958

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