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fashion history and periods

For formal occasions , women sometimes powdered their hair . Women 's hats for indoors included pinners , circular caps with single or double frills around the edge , worn flat on the head , mob caps with wide , flat bs that encircled the face with high , puffed-out crowns located toward the back of the head . Lace trimming was often used , and indoor hats could be worn outdoors under other hats . Outdoor women 's hats included hoods small silk or straw hats with narrow ribbon bands and narrow brims

The technology that was developed that related to

clothing during this time was advancements in the textile industry that expanded textile availability and lowered costs

The costume design could be inaccurate . Portraits of people wearing these clothes are many , but artists sometimes felt that portraits were not to reveal fashionable dress , but rather timeless dress . Therefore museum collections of these clothes and pictorial representations could be inaccurate . For example , Sir Joshua Reynolds , a prominent English portraitist , hated fashion and urged artists to disregard what they found to be fashionable by way of dress , to only paint those characteristics that are everywhere and the same

Directoire /Empire Period

The political climate in France after the French Revolution included the introduction of the Directoire . However , the Directoire governed ineffectively . The Directoire was overthrown by those fearing another revolution , and was replaced by an executive of three consuls Napoleon , as First Consul , had dictatorial power . Napoleon was made Emperor of the French ' by 1804 , and in the next ten years , Napoleon instituted educational and legal reforms and reorganized the government making it more efficient

The Regency period in England refers to the time period from 1811 to 1820 where fashionable society and the English court were organized around the Prince Regent . As a result , the center of fashion in...

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