In honor of Bastille Day: post-Revolution, French fashion fad celebrated the guillotine
Rarely however, do we mention the subculture that would emerge in the aftermath of it all, morphing into an outrageous public display of aristocratic grunge fashion. In what was essentially a ‘proto punk’ movement of the 18th century, visions of scruffily-clad aristocrats being carted off to the guillotine for public beheadings would launch an morbid tongue-in-cheek fashion trend for the survivors of the revolution. Long before the 20th century punks gave us studs and spiked Mohawks during the social unrest of the late Seventies, the post French Revolutionaries of 1793 gave us blood chokers, ripped corsets and cropped, tangled locks, all aimed at symbolising the horror of the guillotine and ridiculing the very foundations of the post-revolutionary society...Women’s style comprised of torn, tatty, tightly fitted and translucent frocks, based on underdresses, suggestive of the loss of their grand outer garments whilst in captivity. Frivolity, ridicule and vulgarity were thrown into the face of horror. Skimpy, ragged and ripped undergarments were worn as outerwear – scandalous dress was the essential Merveilleuses fashion expression. Bulging cleavage, fleshy thighs and flashes of bare bottoms through transparent gauze all spoke of trauma and captivity. The tiniest of purses suggesting frugality and loss; evoking damsels literally stripped of their finery, ready to board the cart to the guillotine.
How French Fashion Emerged even More Decadently from the Guillotine
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