Young woman preserving herself from bad air: she is dress in a redingote à l'Anglaise and coiffed with a cap à la matineuse. (1787)
"Here is Fashion and she comes herself to instruct us. For at least fifteen days, retrench the plumes and your coiffure. While you murmur about it, and while I myself complain about it, it is necessary to obey. You will take them back again in a little while; but during this time, they must be deposed. Your head may only be covered with a
Chapeau-Bonnette whose brim falls rooflike all around and whose crown, very puffed and very large, is tied with a ribbon, forming a large bow in the back. There is your whole coiffure. This hat may be of blue gauze, or if you like it better, pink gauze; it may be of a very light blue or pink taffeta, and tied with a violet ribbon, or a white ribbon; but there may be nothing more: I want it. I only change what is in your
parure; but it pleases me to change it."
Le Magasin des Modes, July 15, 1786
