Saturday, June 2, 2018

ক্যালিকোর বিশ্বজয়

১৬৭০এ মলিয়ের তৈরি করলেন চরিত্র মসিয়েঁ জর্ডন - যিনি বললেন my tailor told me that people of quality wear them in the morning। লন্ডনের কেচ্ছাকাহিনীর ডায়েরি লেখা উচপদস্থ দপ্তরী স্যামুয়েল পেপে যার বানিয়ান পরা ছবি দিয়েছিলাম কয়েক দিন আগে যিনি ক্যালিকোর প্রেমে পড়ে গিয়েছিলেন। ফরাসি ইস্ট ইন্ডিয়া কোম্পানি বলছে eyes are so much used to it(ক্যালিকো) that at present it is impossible to do without these। এর বাইরে যে সব বিত্তবান দামের জন্যে ভারতীয় কাপড় কিনতে পারতেন না, তারা ডাচ বা ব্রিটিশ নকল ছাপায় খুশি থাকতেন।
In 1670 Moliere dressed his bourgeois gentleman, Monsieur Jourdain, in a banyan of calicoes. 'I had this printed cotton made up', says Monsieur Jourdain with confidence; 'my tailor told me that people of quality wear them in the morning'. He was not the only one to be charmed by brightly coloured and richly designed Indian textiles. The contemporary Englishman Samuel Pepys had fallen for similar fashions, though he had thought better to decorate his wife's study room with chintz rather than to wear it as done by Monsieur Jourdain. Pepys was pleased with the result, which he thought was 'very pretty'. If one could not have the original Indian import, one would have recourse to rather more modest imitations that were increasingly produced in Europe, in particular in the Netherlands and England towards the end of the seventeenth century. The visual impact of such calicoes can be grasped from the words of one of the directors of the French Compagnie des Indes when he said that 'eyes are so much used to it that at present it is impossible to do without these' .And such fashion was increasingly becoming part of general attire with areas like Frisia incorporating calicoes into their traditional quilted petticoats.
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