Keywords: 1778-Bourgeois-daughter-fashion.jpg Outfit of the pre-teen daughter of a French bourgeois from Galerie des Modes 1778 Plate 45 detail a green dress with large panniers and a white striped pseudo-apron thing over it By modern standards it seems quite impractical for a child of that age -- and the clothes of an actual aristocrat young girl of the same age might possibly have been even more extreme Compare the adult aristocratic dress at Image 1778-jeune-dame-de-qualite-en-grande-robe jpg This was about a decade before the idea of sparing children most of the indignities of adult fashions took hold compare the attire of Image Marie Antoinette-children-1785-6-Wertmuller jpg in 1785-1786 Image Battledore - Youthful Sports png in 1804 Image Passer-payez-Boilly-ca1803 jpg in ca 1803 Image Philipp Otto Runge 003 jpg in 1805-1806 Image Jean-Baptiste Wicar 001 jpg in 1809 or Image Children-dancing-ca-1820 jpg ca 1820 Also compare en Image Watteau the dance jpg / Image Antoine Watteau 013 jpg or Image Dansande barn målning av Lorens Pasch dy jpg or Image William_Hogarth_047 jpg to see how little things changed from 1718 to 1742 to 1778 Galerie des Modes 1778 18th century artists possibly the same who did File 1778-jeune-dame-de-qualite-en-grande-robe jpg PD-old-100 Galerie des modes Fashion in art 1770s dresses Multicolor dresses Women smiling in art Girls smiling while standing Standing girls in art People with staffs in art Female headgear in art Details of paintings Girls' clothing Aprons in art Fashion in 1778 |