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Whereas lace and embroidery had been the expression of the aristocratic decline, sober lines and plain colors, lightly accented with the carefree “rigatini” or striped cotton material, was the banner of the new military and bourgeois spirit of Napoleon’s era.
Thus the pale but variegated palette of the 1700s was replaced by the prevalence of non-colors.
This is when black became the dominant shade of men’s wear; and vice versa, with the discovery of bleaching, the white of archeological Neoclassicism prevailing in architecture and Canova‘s sculptures draped fluid feminine figures.
