
But what does this word so funny?, Will ask many, it is the biggest extravaganza of the reign of Marie Antoinette, though she is the highest benchmark in terms of eighteenth-century fashion , not only in terms of clothing but also this strange hairstyle in vogue for almost over a decade, the most extravagant rose mounds of hair on the heads of the ladies of the court, wreaking havoc on your aching necks adorned diamonds and lace, but like many women know of this century were characterized by very frivolous, and thus these large heads were empty or full of lice and very fragrant white powder.


What is striking about this peculiar hairstyle is that since the hair root rose nearly a meter or even more, giving us an impressive picture of a woman to make their presentation in the lounge, hair were greased or in some cases there were some scented creams to tighten the hair and do not let this lose the required form, now if the lady was of ancestry is saved all the agony of having to sit for hours in her boudoir, to prepare for a dance or a ceremony, just put on a wig and it was enough, now the most demanding or more vain hair care, washing oils perfumed, and when designing the pouf, made his own voluminous hair extensions sticking meters.
hair was not only the pouf, also increased its volume increases, ribbons, beads, flowers, fruits, arising, in order emeralds had no limit, but the curious thing Pouf was not only its obvious size, but was that this on top of the mound of hair, had a special reason and this could be the gossip of the day. From the inspired Pouf King inoculation pouf de l'inoculation, until the revolt in Paris, but the pouf of Marie Antoinette that impact and left its mark in the history books as the greatest fashion extravagance, was the Independence Pouf, celebrating the triumph of French over the English ships, the coiffure consisted of a replica of a French ship on top of the pouf, the author of this extravagance was the faithful hairdresser Leonard, who each morning visiting his majesty to build a new building with a new theme, of course, this should be the news of the day. Could take houses, mills, gardens, palaces, birds, all I could imagine, there was no limit to this trend, the coiffure à la lphigénie composed of ribbons of mourning and the crescent of Diana. And until the revolution it became fashionable, when looted bakeries in Paris during the crisis of hunger, this frivolous courtly society can not do anything more important than showing this event on the bonnets of the Revolt.

"I can not stop me from hitting a point where, very often, I find repeated in the newspapers, I mean your hair. It is said that from the hair root, have thirty-six inches high, and above there are still feathers and bows. "
Maria Theresa of Austria Marie Antoinette.



Maria Fedeorovna - Tsarina of Russia's fashion (when she was Princess)

Maria Cristina of Habsburg-Lorraine Duchess of Teschen (sister of Marie Antoinette)
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All news was announced in the pouf, they were filled with wire hair, tied with ribbons and greased with creams of different flavors, but the lady who had this amazing and beautiful work I had to go to kneel in his carriage, now to access your boxes at the opera had to bend down and even lost their balance, imagine almost two feet over the head, the odyssey to get off the ground, will have been an ordeal, and in any case walk with a crinoline, or paniers guardainfante also exaggerated and on each side of the waist was deployed one meter pussycat, the volume and the hype was on the agenda in the eighteenth century fashion. I guess every night fall courtesans rendered in bed after taking all this frame of fabric and hair on their bodies.
Dresses eighteenth century



Shoes Corsets



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Now the funny thing is the situation of the lice, the ladies of the beginning of the eighteenth century, had very short hair and small white laughters and was cleaner, as there was much in the habit of washing your hair and thus avoided the bugs are so uncomfortable and embarrassed any noble lady, having to resist the urge to scratching. With the pouf is very clever design, and was a small box of material that the lady could be afford to pay, in some cases was of ivory and wood, the thing is that the box contained a substance that attracted these undesirables and were trapped inside to death and now this box as all the eighteenth century, contained a perfume to conceal their true function well.
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But like all fashion, this happened when our dear muse, Marie Antoinette had her second son, his heir, the Dauphin of France first, it reaffirms its maternity and fulfills its primary role as queen which is to give an heir to the crown and secure the seed of the house Bourbon Marie Antoinette realizes that it is uncomfortable play with their kids dressed like that, with court dress, and decided to change her wardrobe and no more pouf, no large hoops, appears Stowaway and the dress has a more natural effect, the crinoline is small and after a while disappears, using thinner fabrics and petticoats.