Puce Collection

Play / Feydeau / Flea in Ear
Translated as The Flea in the Ear, this farcial confusion was written by the French novelist Ernest Aimee Feydeau

L'egare II - North Atlantic expedition raft, at Falmouth
L'egare II, a raft used by a French crew in 1956 to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The expedition, led by Henri Beaudout, departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving 88 days later at Falmouth

Woman in traveling clothes for riding a cabriolet, 1787
Woman in traveling clothes for riding a cabriolet: she wears a jacket with three collars in Peking puce, a gilet and petticoat in Peking apple-green, and a felt hat decorated with feathers

Woman in the Flea hairstyle
Woman with her hair combed up over a pouf (support) and decorated with flowers, pearls and a sash, called the Flea. La Pouf a la Puce

Woman in puce taffeta caraco over a petticoat of pink taffeta.. Handcolored lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885

The Paris fashions for April, 1860
A sketch from the monthly ladies fashion pages. The evening dress (back) is made of silk, the colour of violette de Parme, trimmed with fluted silk plaiting of a slightly darker tone

Coats by Worth 1923
Orientally inspired coats by Worth based on a Kimono: orange with voluminous hanging sleeves & fur trim & collar; puce wrap over coat with fur lining & embroidered panels

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