Young lady in a taffeta caracot, topped with a half bonnet: this garment originates from Nantes in Brittany, where the bourgeois women of this city wore it when the Duke of Aiguillon passed through in 1768., Claude Louis Desrais, 1778

Plate 72 from the gallery of french fashions and costumes. 12th. Notebook of french costumes, 6th suite of fashionable clothing in 1778. Date: 1778. Medium: engraving on paper. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Demoiselle en caracot de taffetas