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    Pelisse, Redingote, or Walking Dress: History Notes Book 5
    Pelisse, Redingote, or Walking Dress: History Notes Book 5
    Pelisse, Redingote, or Walking Dress: History Notes Book 5
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    Pelisse, Redingote, or Walking Dress: History Notes Book 5

    By Suzi Love

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    What was fashionable for outer wear in past centuries? Call them what you like: Coat, Pelisse, Redingote, Walking Dress, Promenade Dress. They all did the same job and they changed greatly with the prevailing fashions of the time. Take a look at what was being worn by women, men, and children and enjoy lots of historical and edited images from fashion plates and extant garments.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzi Love
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9780463269282
    Pelisse, Redingote, or Walking Dress: History Notes Book 5
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    Suzi Love

    I now live in a sunny part of Australia after spending many years in developing countries in the South Pacific. My greatest loves are traveling, anywhere and everywhere, meeting crazy characters, and visiting the Australian outback.I adore history, especially the many-layered society of the late Regency to early Victorian eras. In and around London, my titled heroes and heroines may live a privileged and gay life but I also love digging deeper into the grittier and seamier levels of British life and write about the heroes and heroines who challenge traditional manners, morals, and occupations, either through necessity or desire.Tag Line- Making history fun, one year at a time

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      Pelisse, Redingote, or Walking Dress - Suzi Love

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      Pelisse, or Walking Dress, or Redingote.  

      A Pelisse dress is a coat like dress worn during the day for walking or paying visits.

      The Fashion Dictionary description of a Redingote is: Woman’s long fitted coat, cut princess style, worn open in the front to show the dress underneath. Sometimes Cutaway in front. Originally made with several capes and trimmed with large buttons. This is a French word developed from the English words, riding coat.

      Pronounced: red ing gote

      Although we know that these sort of coats were worn by women, children, and men.

      These coats are usually high-waisted, with an A-line skirt, and a front opening that is generally buttoned from top to bottom. Around 1820, a pelisse was often decorated with braid or crossover fastenings in imitation of the military uniforms seen frequently in European streets due to the Napoleonic wars.

      A Military Pelisse worn by Charles Stewart, seen here in his Hussar uniform in a painting by Thomas Lawrence.

      A Military Pelisse worn by Charles Stewart, seen here in his Hussar uniform in a painting by Thomas Lawrence.

      Women’s walking coats were therefore a feminine statement in support of all the men in military services but, apart from military uniform coats, or pelisses, men also wore much longer versions of these coats for warmth and comfort.

      English fashion plates tended to call these coats a Pelisse. In Rudolph Ackermann’s English fashion plates from ‘The Repository of Arts’, they are usually called a Walking Dress. In John Belle’s la Belle Assemblee they are called a walking dress, or a Promenade dress, or a Pelisse.

      French Fashion Plates, such as those in the Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien, called them Redingotes.

      1809 Red and Blue Silk Pelisse with a decorative braid over the shoulder and side seams, British.

      1809 Red and Blue Silk Pelisse with a decorative braid over the shoulder and side seams, British.

      Women's dresses in the 1790s  and early 1800s were very lightweight and needed extra  layers for outdoor wear. Front- opening coats, or pelisses, with long sleeves and high collars became fashionable.

      This pelisse of shot red and blue silk has a decorative braid over the shoulder and side seams at the back. collections.vam.ac.uk

      1815 Pelisse, or Walking Dress, or Redingote. Back View.

      1815 Pelisse, or Walking Dress, or Redingote. Back View.

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