English for designers. Английский язык для дизайнеров. Ю. Н. Зиятдинова

      Riding habits consisted of a high-necked, tight-waisted jacket with the fashionable dropped shoulder and huge gigot sleeves, worn over a tall-collared shirt or chemisette, with a long matching petticoat or skirt. Tall top hats with veils were worn.

      Shawls were worn with short-sleeved evening gowns early in the decade, but they were not suited to the wide gigot sleeves of the mid 1830s.

      Full-length mantles were worn to about 1836, when mantles became shorter. A mantlet3 or shawl-mantlet was a shaped garment like a cross between a shawl and a mantle, with points hanging down in front. The burnous4 was a three-quarter length mantle with a hood, named after the similar garment of Arabia. The paletot5 was kneelength, with three cape-collars and slits for the arms, and the pardessus6 was half or three-quarter length coat with a defined waist and sleeves.

      For evening, voluminous mantles of velvet or satin, with fur trim or fur linings in cold climates were worn with the evening gown.

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      Unit 5

      EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

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