Les Incroyables - Two Dapper French Gentlemen T-Shirt

Reproduction of an Original Engraving by By Carle Vernet ( French, 1758 - 1836) Two "Incredibles" meet on the street, wearing the classic exaggerated dress of the rakish gent of the Directoire period. Les Incroyables - The Apogee of Dandyism At the end of the French Revolution, following the fall of Robespierre and the end of the Terror, a wave of relief and of fashion giddiness swept Paris. Young men known as "Les Incroyables" (the incredibles) and their female counterparts "Les Merveilleuses" (the marvelous ones) rejoiced in a wildly exaggerated look which flouted the social conventions of the time. They were the ultimate dandy set, the golden youth of their time, arrogant and outrageous.