The Incôyable and the fashion

Type of Incroyable in 1796, from Carle Vernet. We may see the ring slipped into the ear , the hairs, brushed down over the ears, the stockings, the trousers with ribbons.		Yes, we can read in the History of costume in France, published 1877: "He weared at any time huge spectacles or the pince-nez on his nose, as if he was affected by myopia. " "His hairs, brushed down over the ears in "oreilles de chien" (dog's ears) , turned-up in the back into a bun by a round comb, after the fashion of the sentenced who were formerly taken to the guillotine. " Huge rings, slipped into the ears, made them look like Turkish seraglio servant. His puffy tie, where the chin swiped, giving the appearance to hide a goitre or scrofulas. No longer jabot nor cuff. Of the shirt, his waist coat let only see the part that was stuck in a golden tie clip, jewelry headed.
	"He requested his tailor to cut out his square coat nearly of the shape of a redingote; making ceases everywhere, as if he was a hunchback." "It was also necessary that the trousers puckered and made his knees look knocked, and that his striped stockings were rolling as a cork-screw around his legs. "
	"When so many emigrés came back and that the muscadins saw their ranks penetrated by these strangers wearing powdered curls and wide bow tying hair on the neck, in order to demonstrate that a certain distance separated them from the reaction, they began to get their hair chopped à la Brutus, à la Titus or curled à la Caracalla. This brought incitements on them. The police, to protect them, forbad the wide bow tying hair on the neck."

Elegant in 1799
La Mésangère,
Parisian costumes at the end of eighteenth century.

"The emigrés being back, the royalist opinion exhibited by a black collar to the coat. The arrogance of the black collars caused the apparition of an opposite party, the red collars. All the summer of 1797 was troubled and even blooded by the fights between black and red collars. MM. de Goncourt had extract from papers of this period curious facts illustrating the quarrel:

This day was the end of the political exhibitions by the dress, from that time on the ridiculous lost progressively success. The elegant man in 1799, with favorits and short hair, dressed with a green or blue coat, wearing long trousers, was already a man of the nineteenth century.