Déclaration Contre le Luxe des Habits, Carrosses et Ornements [Declaration against Luxury in Clothes, Carriages and Ornaments]
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French text of the royal sumptuary declaration issued at Paris on 27 November 1660 against luxury in clothing, carriages and ornament, as reprinted in the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club. Articles ban gold and silver cloth, embroidery, and trimmings on garments and liveries, and prohibit gilding and embroidery on carriages and harness. Article V restricts the sale of foreign and French lace, passements, point de Gênes and similar thread work to a width of one inch, and bans lace-trimmed boot hose (canons). Two plates reproduce seventeenth-century satirical prints, one showing a maid ripping lace from a lady's garments.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1930
- Language
- French
- Pages
- 5
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