Samuel Pepys’ fashion prints reveal his guilty pleasure: Fancy French clothes
Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean, Habit Noir (evening wear), etching c. 1670. A print collected by Samuel Pepys showing a fashionable elite Frenchman proudly wearing lace cuffs and ribbons. Credit: Reproduced by permission of the Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge A collection of French fashion engravings offers precious new insights into the life of Samuel Pepys … Leer más