Clothing characteristics in Rococo period

Men's wear is still a blouse with a loose hem, or it can be sewn to the waist. Sleeves are lace cuffs, or short sleeves are only three-quarters of the length of the arm, revealing a shirt lined with lace inside. Pants are loosely hung in stockings and tied with roses.

1675 or so, three sets of men's wear are still popular. The coat evolved into a knee-length shoulder, and then a lot of decorations were put outside and sewn near the waist. Pants are slender pants, reaching to the knees, with stockings and buckled shoes below.

Rococo women's dress gave up the geometric rigor of the Spanish bell skirt, but retained the wide hips and corset. In addition to petticoats of different colors, bell-shaped long skirts are mostly pleated first and then dragged.

Rococo women's dresses have become frivolous, with wrinkles, ruffles, casual lace and raised petticoats. A dome-shaped whale bone ring replaced the old bell skirt, forming a typical silhouette effect of late Baroque women. From the oversized skirt to the thin shoulders to the high head, the whole person is conical.

Characteristics;

The overall characteristics of rococo are lightness, magnificence, exquisiteness, delicacy, massiness, delicacy and softness. It pursues exquisite beauty, delicate beauty, complicated and trivial beauty, exquisite and elegant beauty, sweet and soft beauty.

It deliberately emphasizes the asymmetry of composition. Its craft, structure and lines are very soft. Its decorative theme tends to be naturalism, mainly with tortuous shell-shaped curves and exquisite carvings. The key to modeling is convex curve, which is often used as S-shaped corner. Rococo-style colors are very delicate and bright, such as green, pink and scarlet. And most of the legs are gold.

Extended data;

Development;

From 65438 to 1930s, Rococo art developed rapidly in France, and was gradually influenced by China art, which extended from architectural decoration to furniture, painting and sculpture. Rococo retains baroque complex images and intricate patterns, and gradually blends them with other features and elements, including oriental art and asymmetric combination.

This art form then spread from France to Germany, Spain and other regions, and merged with the local style. In18th century England, Rococo style was regarded as a kind of "French flavor", which was less used in architecture and more used in silverware and ceramics.

Rococo style was brought by artists who immigrated from Italy to Britain, such as Baguti and Atarit, and Irish brother Franco.

With the rise of Napoleon in France, Rococo was gradually expelled from France.

Reference source; Baidu Encyclopedia-Rococo Art