Parisian women's fashion; reign of Louis XVI; 1787. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polidor Pauquet after Philibert-Louis Debucourt from the Pauquet Brothers' 鈥楳odes et Costumes Historiques' (Historical Fashions and Costumes); Paris; 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century; specializing in illustrated books on costume; birds; butterflies; anatomy and natural history.