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The skirt of the devantiere was split up the back to enable astride riding. [2] By the early 19th century, in addition to describing the whole costume, a devantiere could describe any part of the riding habit, be it the skirt, [2] the apron, [3] or the riding coat. [4] In his diary for June 12, 1666, Samuel Pepys wrote:
A safeguard or saveguard was a riding garment or overskirt worn by women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some safeguards were intended to protect skirts or kirtles worn beneath. [ 1 ] Mary Frith , dramatised as the character Moll Cutpurse in The Roaring Girl , wore a black safeguard over breeches . [ 2 ]
Riding habits consisted of a high-necked, ... Fashion plate of young girl's and young boy's costumes, 1841. French boy, 1843–44.
#46 Woman Poses In What I Think Is A Riding Outfit. Like The Double Breastes Low Cut Jacket. ... #68 Portraits Of Jane Avril Was A French Can-Can Dancer Made Famous By Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec ...
Empress Elisabeth Christine in riding costume. In the early decades of the new century, formal dress consisted of the stiff-bodiced mantua. A closed (or "round") petticoat, sometimes worn with an apron, replaced the open draped mantua skirt of the previous period. This formal style then gave way to more relaxed fashions.
Salomon de La Broue (c. 1530 – c. 1610) was a French écuyer or riding-master [1] and Gascon gentleman. [2]: 353 His treatise on riding, published as the Preceptes Principaux in 1593, was the first to have been written in French. [1] [2]: 353 Like Antoine de Pluvinel, he was a pupil of Gianbattista Pignatelli.
During the French Revolution, men's costume became particularly emblematic of the movement of the people and the upheaval of the aristocratic French society. It was the long pant, hemmed near the ankles, that displaced the knee-length breeches culottes that marked the aristocratic classes.
Antoine de Pluvinel (1552, Crest, Dauphiné - 24 August 1620) was the first of the French riding masters, and has had great influence on modern dressage. He wrote L’Instruction du Roy en l’exercice de monter à cheval ("instruction of the King in the art of riding"), was tutor to King Louis XIII , and is credited with the invention of using ...