The galant style was an 18th-century movement in music, visual arts and literature.
[clarification needed] The galant style was drawn in opposition to the strictures of the Baroque style, emphasizing light elegance in place of the Baroque's dignified seriousness and high grandeur.
[2][3] In music, the galant emphasis was on simplicity, immediacy of appeal, and elegance.
[4][5] In fashion, galant featured perfumed handkerchiefs and powdered wigs for both sexes.
[6] The fantastic exotic asymmetry of bizarre silk patterns were symptomatic of galant tastes.