Figure 21.—Summer dress of a gentleman. He wears a linen waistcoat garnished with lace, and a long wig (cf. [fig. 18]). From the Extraordinaire of the Mercure Galant, June 1678. (Author’s collection.)
[Figure 22.]—Summer dress of a lady with a pleated lace (Point d’Angleterre) petticoat. From the Extraordinaire of the Mercure Galant, June 1678. (Author’s collection.)
The winter fashions for 1678-79 were described in a long article in the ordinary October number of the Mercure Galant, which, for the costume historian, is of great importance, since it deals among other topics with the evasion of the sumptuary legislation by the fashionable world. The fashion plates are by a new artist and are reduced to two (figs. 23 and [24]).