La DAME MAIGRE. - Voilà le bateau à vapeur qui sort..... le baron Coquenard doit être à bord!...... enfonçons-nous dans la mer pour qu'il ne nous voie pas dans ce costume....... LA GROSSE DAME. - Moi..., je ne suis pas fâchée qu'il me voie..... lui qui prétend toujours qu'il ne reste rien d'une femme quand elle a quitté sa crinoline et son corset!.......
La DAME MAIGRE. - Voilà le bateau à vapeur qui sort..... le baron Coquenard doit être à bord!...... enfonçons-nous dans la mer pour qu'il ne nous voie pas dans ce costume....... LA GROSSE DAME. - Moi..., je ne suis pas fâchée qu'il me voie..... lui qui prétend toujours qu'il ne reste rien d'une femme quand elle a quitté sa crinoline et son corset!.......
Title (alt.):
THE SLIM LADY. - There is the steamboat leaving..... the Baron Coquenard must be on board!...... let's plunge ourselves into the sea so he won't see us in these costumes....... THE FAT LADY. - Me..., I'm not worried that he'll see me..... he always claims that there is nothing left of a woman when she takes off her crinoline and her corset!........ Charivari
Description:
Two women spot a steamboat coming towards them. One woman says they should submerge themselves in the water so that the Baron, a passenger on the steamboat, won't see their swimsuits. The other woman says not to bother, because the Baron says that without crinolines and corsets women aren't really women. AUX BAINS DE MER. (At the seaside resort) is a series of 7 prints, which appeared in the Charivari in June 1858 and between August and September 1859. CRINOLINES. In 1855 the first crinolines appeared on the streets of Paris. This new fashion was to remain “in” for more than 10 years. Maybe Ramus described the situation best:” The fashion designer Worth created for his female clients hoop skirts which over the years constantly increased in size. He was obviously following the trend of the period by creating crinolines which were quite extraordinary in size, of no practical use …. and they fitted perfectly into this period of extravagance and exuberance of the second Empire.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, September 5, 1859.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
