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A blog by Elena Maria Vidal.
Marie Antoinette’s delicate beauty called for pale colours, and
green and pink and puce were amongst the favoured tones, the last
mentioned taking its name from no more attractive source than the back
of a flea. Her earlier dresses displayed
stiff pointed bodices with stomachers, held with little tied bows
of velvet, and paniers bunched liberally on the hips to show the
under-dress of lace, bordered with flounces, headed and festooned with
roses. The décolletage was square, and the elbow sleeves had frills
of lace.
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