therevolutionaryparlor: Steel Buttons/ Coup de Bouton- Satire 5454 Steel Buttons, published by W Hum
therevolutionaryparlor: Steel Buttons/ Coup de Bouton- Satire 5454 Steel Buttons, published by W Humphrey 29 April 1777 Making Fun Of The Rich and Over Dressed~ A man (left) and woman (right), dressed in the height of the fashion, meet one another, walking in a park indicated by two trees. Rays of light spread from the large buttons on the man’s coat and strike the face of the lady, who falls back dazzled, lifting her arms as if to ward off the blaze. The buttons appear to be of cut-steel or silver with incised lines and a beaded edge, He wears a sword and carries a tasselled cane under his left arm. His shoes have large Artois buckles. The lady wears the enormous pyramid of hair decorated with curls then fashionable, on its summit ribbons, feathers, etc., which appears to be a hat. She holds a fan and wears a nosegay. Her dress has the tight waist, and inflated draperies over a comparatively narrow petticoat supported by a ‘cork rump’, Reproduced, Paston, Pl. xxvi. 29 April 1777 Credit British Museum. -- source link
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