French traditional clothing men

Hello all, I feel that I have neglected a couple of European countries, and I wish to remedy that. Today I will take a deeper look at one of the costumes of Sweden which has a distinctive embroidery tradition. Embroidery is not as common in Swedish folk costume as it is in some other countries, like Norway for example, but it does occur in some localities. Swedish costume in general is more linked to decorative weavings and printed cloth. Dalarna, in Latin Dalecarlia, is a center of Swedish…

Date: ca. 1790. Culture: French. Medium: a) silk; b,c) silk, linen. Credit Line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 2003. Accession Number: 2003.45a–c. ...

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Hear from two Costume Institute conservators about what it takes to restore eighteen-century dress to a state of splendor fit for the Bourbon Court.

Men who were royal had to wear these types of traditional clothing. After Hamlet met his father's ghost, he was in Ophelia's room. His jacket unfasted, no hat on his head, his socks dirty fallen down around his ankles like chains. He wasn't in royal clothes. He was pale and it seemed like he came out from hell.

16th century french clothing. Renaissance costumes. Charles IX. of France. Eleonora of Austria. Heinrich d'Albert, King of Navarre. Claude de Lorraine

Traditional clothing from Brittany. French national dresses in 1850. The Munich Picture Gallery 1848 to 1898. On the history of costumes.