Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 (1898)
Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931, Loyd, Mary Sophia Hely-Hutchinson, 1853-1936, Courboin, François, 1865-1926 · London, W. Heinemann · leaf 303
ladies of the latter period of the Empire seemedto delight in approaching the very edge of caricature ; nocostume was too paradoxical, no fashion too exagger-atedly vulgar, for them. The more wild andmad and utterly improbable a womans dress<*jjft N became, the more reasonably she might expect… … 1864 136 FASHION IN PARIS
Fashion · Costume
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