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Group: Cheyenne people (Amerind tribe)
People: Charles Leclerc
Topic: Western Fashion
Location: Aoudaghost Mauritania

Western Fashion

Years: 1684 - 1827

By 1800, the influence of national features in dress, in decline throughout the previous age, have become negligible.

The character of the feminine wardrobe now stems from Paris, the masculine from London.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)