Stylish, chic and elegant - My Pictures for Today 28.12.2017 (1/3)

In the early centuries, religion required women to cover their faces and heads with veils, hatches, headscarves and hoods. It was only at the end of the sixteenth century that ladies were allowed to adorn themselves with hats that resembled those of the clergymen. A century later, fashion divides men’s and women’s hats. The 18th century is definitely a century of excessive, self-sacrificial and anti-capitalist hat. Especially when in the second half of the 18th century French Queen Marie Antoinette set a tone in the fashion score. She seemed to be aware that she would be separated from her head and was tireless in her decoration … while she had it … Composite compositions of flowers, veils, lace, feathers, animals, fruits, and what the absolutist hats of the ladies still do not adorn .