"The attraction that the Turkish customs aroused in the eighteenth-century society, so much to be left an imprint on the dress scheme female, was deep if it is considered that it was the more “western” of the customs and the least open one to structural variations. Dramatically nearby and incumbent, the Ottoman empire had struck the imaginary westerner since the epoch of the crusades and the portrait of the sultan Mohammed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, that Kind Pretty had painted in 1480, it is not but the precursor of one “fashion” three centuries exploded later for the social representation of the privileged classes. The fashion for the “turcherie” had been stimulated from two sensational embassies sent by the sultan to Paris in 1721 and in 1742, that had followed the publication, in 1714, of an illustrated repertoire on the middle orient customs, that constituted a sort of reference forced for every type of “turcheria.” For the social representation of the éliteses the portrait in exotic custom constituted one of the sought after passages over that, often, a direct source for the knowledge of the original attires, that were brought in West by the travellers, as well as used by the painters for the layings, and from the theatre."
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