- published: 07 Sep 2013
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A caraco is a style of woman's jacket that was fashionable from the mid-18th to early 19th centuries. Caracos were thigh-length and opened in front, with tight, three-quarter or long sleeves. Like gowns of the period, the back of the caraco could be fitted to the waist or could hang in pleats from the shoulder in a "sack-back". Caracos were generally made of printed linen or cotton.
The caraco emerged as an informal style in France in the 1760s, based on working-class jackets. It was worn with a petticoat and, if open in front, a stomacher or decorative stays. The English caraco was generally closed in front. A similar garment with a wrap front, called in English a bedgown or short gown, was the standard working woman's costume of the later 18th century.
Women's jackets and short gowns of the 18th century
The Chocolate Girl, 1743–45, wears a fitted jacket, petticoat, and apron.
Working woman's bedgown and petticoat, 1764
Caraco and matching petticoat, Victoria and Albert Museum, c. 1770s.
Actors: Armin Schweizer (actor), Ettore Cella (actor), Theo Lingen (actor), Walter Baumgartner (composer), Max Haufler (actor), Helmut Förnbacher (actor), Ursula Heyer (actress), Heidy Forster (actress), Kurt Früh (writer), Kurt Früh (director), Ruedi Walter (actor), Fred Tanner (actor), Margrit Rainer (actress), Hans Grimm (actor), Karl Wagner (actor),
Plot: They live behind the rails of the classification yard in a small and shabby hut. They take the days as they come, refuse to work on principle and pinch together their livelihood. The three tramps Dürst, Barbarossa and Clown are content with what they have and ignore the outside world, and so far they have fared well. Until now...
Keywords: railroad-track, single-mother, true-loveActors: Raymond Lamy (editor), Jean Daurand (actor), Roger Hanin (actor), Louis Jourdan (actor), José Lewgoy (actor), Jean Ozenne (actor), Albert Rémy (actor), Guy Tréjan (actor), Julien Verdier (actor), Dany Carrel (actress), Christine Gouze-Rénal (producer), Marcel Achard (writer), Albert Valentin (writer), Cornell Woolrich (writer), Marcel Bozzuffi (actor),
Genres: Adventure,George
Miscellaneous
Bar Scene Part One
There's no water and I'm sitting in a bar by myself
And the lights are reflecting off those silver jangly pieces
The fat man's dog keeps biting at my heels
Now I'm through with standing, let the fat man lay me down
Chorus
From across the carpet crawls a tutu, with a drinks tray
With a white piece of paper, a message from a dead friend
The words I could not decipher
But the meaning was hard to misunderstand
Then with her lips to my ear, she told me what he had said...
Chorus
You take it away, you take it away
Sometimes things just move that way
You take it away, you take it away
Sometimes things just move that way
Sometimes things just move that way