Figure 27. — Fashion plate depicting a lady with her page being saluted by a gentleman. 

 From the Mercurc dc France, March l'^29. (Courtisv uf British Musium. London.) 



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Figure 28. — Fashion plate, the first of the series Reaml des dijjerentes Modes du Temps. The labric ol" the dress 

 on the right is a moire or watered silk, on the left a "lace-pattern" brocade, often wrongly ascribed to the 

 period of Louis XIII (1610-i3). Issued by Herisset, ca. 1730. (.Author's collection.) 



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