- Redingote
The redingote is a type of coat that has had several forms over time. The name is derived from a French alteration of the English "riding coat".
Women's redingote
The first form of the redingote was in the 1700s, when it was used for travel on
horseback . This coat was a bulky, utilitarian garment. It would begin to evolve into a fashionable accessory in the early 1800s, when women began wearing a tighter-fitting, princesse-cut versions. Italian fashion also picked it up (the "redingotte"), adapting it for more formal occasions.The "redingote à la Hussar" was trimmed with parallel rows of horizontal braid in the fashion of
Hussar s' uniforms.The style continued to evolve through the late 19th century, until it took a form similar to today's redingote. The newer form is marked by a close fit at the chest and waist, a belt, and a flare toward the
hem .Men's redingote
The men's redingote was an 18th century or early 19th century long coat or greatcoat, derived from the country garment with a wide, flat collar called a "
frock " In French, "redingote" is the usual term for a fittedfrock coat . The form a men's redingote took could be of the tightly fitting frock coat style, or the more voluminous, loose "great coat" style, replete with overlapping capes or collars, such as a "garrick" redingote.ee also
Frock coat References
Payne, Blanche: "History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century", Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS
Tozer, Jane and Sarah Levitt, "Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770-1870, Laura Ashley Press, ISBN 0-9508913-0-4
Cassin-Scott, Jack, "Costume and Fashion in colour 1760-1920", Blandford press, ISBN 0-7137-0740-2
External links
* [http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/fashion/redingote.htm Redingote] at the San Jose State University 19th Century Paris Project
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