The Emperor‘s Expensive Clothes/Des Kaisers teure Kleider
Uniform and Fashion at the Imperial Court in Vienna; Formal Gowns and Robes, Court Uniforms and Liveries from the early 18th Century to 1918
Uniform und Mode am Wiener Hof; Festroben und Ornate, Hofuniformen und Livréen vom frühen 18. Jahrhundert bis 1918
15.5. - September 2000 Mann trägt des "Kaisers Rock". The Emperor Joseph II saw himself as the "first servant of the state”, standing at the top of a pyramid of loyal and responsible "servants”. The monarch was surrounded by the court nobility whose members held the most important posts in state and military. Their personal relations ? be it meeting, negotiating, talking or disagreeing, living or dying - with their sovereign and with all the other members of the court were governed by the strict rules laid down in court etiquette. Naturally, this also included strict rules on the clothes worn at court. Within this pyramid of civil and military public servants, a uniform expressed its wearer’s rank and importance. He was thus also included in the ceremonial rules.
Fig.: Spenzer und Kappa von der Gala-Livree eines Jockeys vom Rappen - od. Braunen Zug, um 1900, KHM, Monturdepot
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