Talk:Pelisse

This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Fashion This article is within the scope of WikiProject Fashion, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Fashion on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.FashionWikipedia:WikiProject FashionTemplate:WikiProject Fashionfashion articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

The Wiktionary entry has a 3rd definition, where it's a Victorian children's garment. But this article does not mention any child-wear - is it incomplete? --Gwern (contribs) 18:41 13 September 2009 (GMT)

That is not a good idea at all. Riding habits are a particular and distinct style of clothing with their own history origins and use, and so is the pelisse. The pelisse was originally a short fur lined coat worn over the shoulder like a cape by the men in the geographical area of Hungary, northern Serbia and Romania, since about the 15th century. With the export of hussar light cavalry from this region in the 18th century the style spread from there. Various military units still wear them today as parade uniforms. The lady's coats that also took the name and were inspired by them were only a relatively short lived fashion trend however.OzoneO (talk) 17:01, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! In contribution to the section of this article relating to the history of the pelisse as a feature of women's fashionable dress in the west, I have made additions of content including developments and changes to the garment from the eighteenth century and through the nineteenth, with particular focus on the early nineteenth century, when the garment was most popularly in fashion. References, links to other related Wikipedia articles, and image to illustrate have also been included.

Many thanks! Diary of a Dress Historian (talk) 16:12, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]