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French dress of the Louis XIV period: male attire of long coat with wide, turned-back sleeves, waistcoat, lace cravat, tight-fitting breeches, and periwig. Louis XIV and His Family, oil painting by Nicolas de Largillière, 1711; in the Wallace Collection, London.

Portrait painting by Pierre Prud'hon showing Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck seated with a book, his wife Catharina Nahuys standing beside him, and their two children in a park, with the boy holding a goat and the girl holding a wreath of flowers.

Cary Grant, 1957

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Browne, Thom

Thom Browne

American fashion designer