Neglige
The term negligé or negligée comes from French and means something like "the careless ( dress )" or from the Latin neglegere "disregard", "neglect". Originally the term house clothes such as B. dressing gowns , nightgowns , pajamas , today it is understood to mean exclusively elegant and / or seductive women's nightgowns.
description
Today, the term negligee is usually understood to mean a short, wide swinging and seductive nightgown, often made of light, transparent fabrics such as taffeta or silk crepe . There are both very simple designs and cleverly cut variants with ruffles, ribbons and laces. The negligee should be seductive in that it completely envelops the woman and still hides little.
A short, figure-flattering bed jacket made of veil-like transparent chiffon is also known as a negligee, which is equipped with ties below the breast for gathering. The nightwear also includes a transparent knee-length or ankle-length caftan made of soft, flowing tulle , usually bordered all around with a floral lace, which is girded over the hips if necessary. High side slits and arm slits ensure comfortable movements.
history
Towards the end of the 17th century, the term “negligé” spread in France; it referred to the condition of a lady who was not ready to receive visitors, who was therefore not dressed and did not have her hair. At the same time, the term “deshabillé” came increasingly in use for men and women, which referred to the clothes that one wore in this state (in particular the so-called house dress, “robe de chambre”). In the 18th century, starting in France, it became customary all over Europe for aristocratic women to stay in their house dress in the boudoir , to have their breakfast and to receive visitors in bed. The women therefore wore a wide-fitting dressing gown over their shirt: first the manteau , later the contouche . Since both pieces of clothing were later also worn on the street, the broader meaning of the word negligee developed: Any non-formal, non-courtly clothing was called negligee (or déshabillé ). Today it could best be compared with the clothes on so-called Casual Friday .
The Marquise de Pompadour is said to have invented a house dress that became known as the "Robe à la Pompadour": It was a cloak in the shape of a Turkish jacket, tightly fitting on the collar and buttoned at the wrists. By conforming to the elevation of the chest and fitting tightly around the hips, he emphasized the beauty of the waist and at the same time seemed to want to cover it up, as Marianne-Agnès Pillement Fauques wrote in 1759. By emphasizing the physical advantages of the mistress in order to please her royal lover, this "negligee" already points in the direction of its current meaning.
In 1959, Doris Day wore a seductive dressing gown in the film " Bettgeflüster ", which made the negligee popular in the USA. Previously, Hollywood actresses had already brought negligees to the screen in the 1930s as a reaction to the economic recession, so that the negligee became a symbol of the new type of femme fatale (e.g. Jean Harlow in " Dinner at eight ") .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ negligee, negligée. In: Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, Vol. 2. Dictionnaires d'autrefois - ATILF, 1694, accessed on March 26, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Deshabillé. In: Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres. ARTFL Encyclopédie, 1751, accessed on March 26, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Negligee - Nachtwaesche-Ratgeber.de. August 3, 2016, accessed March 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Marianne Agnès Pillement Fauques: L'histoire de Madame la marquise de Pompadour [1759] . Le Moniteur du Bibliophile, Paris 1879, p. 153 ( archive.org [accessed March 26, 2020]).
- ↑ HISTOIRE DE LA MODE. Le déshabillé on 4 dates. May 21, 2013, accessed March 26, 2020 (French).
