Fashions of Toilette: Pantaloons, Frock, and Жилет

Title

Fashions of Toilette: Pantaloons, Frock, and Жилет

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Continued European influences on Russian styles and fashion amongst the city's elite.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin 
Image: Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре
           Лотман, Юрий. Бесебы о русской культуре. Санкт-Петербург, «Искусство-СПБ», 1994. 

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Большая Советская Энициклопедия

Text

«В последнем вкусе туалетом

Заняв ваш любопытный взгляд,

Я мог бы пред ученым светом

Здесь описать его наряд;

Конечно б это было смело,

Описывать моё же дело:

Но панталоны, фрак, жилет,

Всех этих слов на русском нет» (1, XXVI, 16). 


“In current fashions of toilette,

I might describe in terms more knowing

His clothing for the learned set.

This might well seem an indiscretion,

Description, though is my profession;

But pantaloons, gilet, and frock—

These words are hardly Russian stock” (Chapter 1, Stanza 26, Page 16). 

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Date Added
September 13, 2017
Collection
"Reading" Fashion in A. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: Word as Image in 1820s Imperial Russia
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Citation
Elizabeth LaFave, “Fashions of Toilette: Pantaloons, Frock, and Жилет,” Collections @ ECU, accessed December 22, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/601.