Here is the presentation of a beautiful project linked to the Venetian museum of the history of costume, fabric and perfume. Following the scientific program of the exhibition which places Venetian fashion from the 1700s as focus of the exhibition, we were asked to create two costumes, one for women and one for men from the mid-1700s, which would allow us to show how many and what were the pieces that “built” a dress, in order to describe the entire society
For the women’s dress it was decided to reproduce an “andrienne” or “andriè” as it was called in Venice, with the predisposition to transform it into a “polonaise”, or into a “retroussée dans les poches”.
A mid-century model was also chosen for men, therefore with a fairly long but contoured and close-fitting waistcoat, a long jacket with large hand guards, and typical mid-century trousers.
On the recommendation of the MUVE teaching office, the costumes were made of white cotton, the outermost part in a coarse cotton canvas, while fine cotton was used inside as a lining. For the poplin shirts, always white, to allow the diversity of the use of the fabric to be shown without distracting the creation of the same with different colors and finishes.