It’s a really powerful story. Very emotional. The perfect opening to the collection.
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![Magasin des Modes Nouvelles Françaises et Anglaises, 30 septembre 1787, 32e cahier, 2e année, Pl. 1.
Original description translated into English:
The young man, on whom we have depicted the current fashion, is dressed in a Louviers cloth coat with broad dark green stripes and broad dark red stripes, which are clear and pronounced.
Many different colours of cloth with two very broad faded stripes are worn. Some even wear cloth with three stripes, but in these cases the middle stripe is smaller than the other two, blending into each side and, so to speak, merely linking and nuancing the other two stripes.
The two blended stripes are usually pale yellow; purple and red; purple and pink; blue and yellow; etc.
The three stripes are purple, pink and sky blue: the pink stripe in the middle; grey, white and blue: the white stripe in the middle; scarlet, yellow and purple: the yellow stripe in the middle; etc.
The young man's coat is lined with red twill and trimmed with dark purple piping.
Under his coat, the young man wears a white waistcoat, edged with a long white silk trim;
Casimir cloth breeches, where the seams of the garters, buttonholes, and drawstring, now narrow, are made of green silk and form delicate embroidery.
We may recall that two months ago, we said that this fashion for seams of various colours was beginning to catch on; it is almost the only one accepted today.
The young man wears white silk stockings.
His shoes have large oval buckles.
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Continuation of the original description translated into English:
In his pockets, he has two watches, one of which has a gold chain adorned with gold charms, and the other a simple blue silk cord adorned with a very large key, either in gold, silver, or crystal surrounded by a gold circle, or in agate similarly surrounded by a gold circle.
His hair is curled into two very long curls on each side, and in a Greek style at the back, parted in a horseshoe shape at the back and falling slightly in a shell shape on his forehead. At the back his hair is tied in a long plait à la Panurge.
His shirt is trimmed with cuffs and a jabot of fine batiste, all plain.
Around his neck is a wide cravat, which is wrapped three times and forms a medium-sized bow at the front.
He holds his hat in his hand, refurbished in the Androsmane style.
He is depicted bowing in greeting as he walks along a public promenade.
Rijksmuseum object number RP-P-2009-1659A](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:plxiecprr6zzjwkcylt7nsgw/bafkreiben775rzwpzyxpceetpvvolm7dbpldpl23szvwwxcxhi4tgdeve4)