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17th Century Fashion Links Page
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General 17th Century Costume Links

The World Of Henriette - Baroque Costumes
Random Costume Illustrations of the 17th Century
The Age of the Sun King
Costume History: 17th Century
Color Plates from "Die Mode Menschen und Moden im Siebzehnten Jarhundert" (Modes and manners of the 17th Century) by Max von Boehn 1913.
17th Century Costumes (Includes Patterns from Kohler)
LOUIS XIV - THE SUN KING
Racinet's Le Costume Historique: Europe in the 17th & 18th Century

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Ultimate Sticker Book: Costume Historical Fashion in Detail: the 17th and 18th Centuries V&A

Pirate Lady - Royal Adult Collection

Blackwork

Early Dance Part 2 (Baroque Dance)

Video: Il Ballarino : The Art of Renaissance Dance

 

 

Italian Lace Designs : 243 Classic Examples (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

Embroidery in Britain From 1200 to 1750: The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection

The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930 Child sized Tattered Pirate Hat

 
 Costume History

Keepers of the Kingdom : The Ancient Offices of Britain The English Housewife

20,000 Years of Fashion : The History of Costume and Personal Adornment 

  The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey

FRONTIER 8822 Spike Angel, black cow leather Apparel MAVERICK-8824 Spike Angel, black pig leather Apparel

Frenchman's Creek

Cyrano de Bergerac

All the Mornings of the World (1991)

The Man in the Iron Mask (Chamberlain)

The Three Musketeers/ The Four Musketeers long curly wig, assorted colors

Period Costume for Stage & Screen : Patterns for Women's Dress 1500-1800

Rest0216.jpg (12515 bytes) Restoration 42 inch Italian Rapier Fencing Sword Rapier Frog Black Leather Sheath Holster MUSKETEER Rapier Sword...Fencing Sword

 
 
Racinet's Le Costume Historique: France 17th & 18th Centuries
Racinet's Le Costume Historique: 17th & 18th Century Holland
THE HANDBOOK OF GERMAN DRESS- 1600s Section
Colonial Kids at ThinkQuest: Clothing
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Two Centuries of Costume in America, Vol. 1 (1620-1820), by Alice Morse Earle
17th Century Fashion Page 1
Historische Kostüme: Barock
Historische Kostüme: Barock
Yahoo! Groups : HistoricCostuming_BaroqueRococo
Chateau de Versailles 17th & 18th Century Art in the Museum of the History of France
Dutch Paintings of the 17th Century Showing Costume
Dry Drunk: Costume and Identity
Sir Anthony van Dyck
Titian
Gallery of Costume - Collections 17th Century Fashion
17th Century Fashion Page 1
MaraRiley.net dedicated to 17th and 18th century costume in Europe and the American colonies.
Pirate Image Archive
Baroque
Histoire du costume au théâtre depuis les...17th Cent. Adolphe Julliene - Google Book Search
Reconstructing History — Fashion in the 17th century
ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 5 Baroque Art
World Art Treasures:Vermeer
History of Costumes Image Index pages 9-11.
WebMuseum: Dyck, Sir Anthony van
Beauty in the 17th century
The Medici Archive Project: History of Costume and Textiles
Plymouth Colony Clothing
Pilgrim Clothing: Dress in Early New England
Native (American) Clothing in the 17th Century
Zeitportal 1675-1725 : Index

1600-1630

Early 17th Century Europe: 1600-1630
Creating French Culture: The Path to Royal Absolutism
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1600-1650 in fashion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FAMSF: Jacques Callot Les Caprices 1617
Contemporary text Norton Anthology of English Literature Topic: 17th Century texts on Cross-dressing
Contemporary text Haec-Vir
Contemporary text Hic Mulier
Contemporary text Haec Vir
Contemporary text Hic Mulier
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 BnF - Abraham Bosse - 1620s fashion
Crossdressing in the Roaring Girl
"Women in Men's Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in The Roaring Girl,"
"Rehabilitating Moll's Subversion in The Roaring Girl,"
1600-1650 in fashion Information from Answers.com
Natasha Korda: "The Case of Moll Frith: Women's Work and the 'All-Male Stage'"
Contemporary text The Right, Lawful, and Holy Use of Apparel. (1616 Puritan) 
 French Fashions of the Reign of Henri IV
French Fashions of the Reign of Louis XIII

1630-1665

Mid 17th Century Europe: 1630-1665
Contemporary text On Apparelling (Puritan sermon, 1650's)  
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1600-1650 in fashion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1600-1650 in fashion Information from Answers.com
1650-1700 in fashion Information from Answers.com
Early Baroque Fashion
French Fashions of the Reign of Louis XIII
Creating French Culture: The Path to Royal Absolutism
Splendor and Wit; Costume and Society in the Age of Louis XIV, The Sun King (1654 - 1715)

1665-1700

Late 17th Century Europe: 1665-1700
19th Century French Costume Designs for the Plays of Moliere
LACMA Collections Online Fashion at the Court of Louis XIV
Patterns and Pictures from Maurice Leloir's Histoire du Costume, including all plates from Volume 10 Fashions of 1678-1725, and assorted pattern diagrams from the 16th-19th Centuries
Louis XIV and His Court Paper Dolls
Colonal Clothing 1675-1800
Late Baroque Fashion
1650-1700 in fashion Information from Answers.com
Pennsbury Manor Woman's Clothing
Dressed to Rule : Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II
ArtLex on Costume
Perspectives on Theatre Culture (1660-1737)
Restoration fashion
The World of Samuel Pepys Paper Dolls
A History of English Dress in the Late 17th to 18th Centuries
Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume : 100 Engravings
Britannia: The Mistresses of Charles II
Loves of Charles II's
Croatian origins of the The Neck Tie
Contemporary text To Defend the Head From the Superfluity of Naughtiness , London 1688  
Creating French Culture: The Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy
The Salacious Historian's Lair - Period Galleries 1660-1715
Contemporary text The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, entire
Contemporary text 1673 The Gentlewoman's Companion by Anon. probably Hannah Wooley  
Contemporary text 1675 The Gentlewoman's Companion by Hannah Wooley 
Amazon.com: Books: The Gentlewoman's Companion, 1675
Contemporary text 1675 The Gentlewoman's Companion by Hannah Wooley: on Fashions & Modesty  
Contemporary text 1675 The Gentlewoman's Companion by Hannah Wooley on Following the New Fashions  
Contemporary text Memoirs of Louis XIV And His Court And Of The Regency --
Contemporary text The Ladies Dressing Room Unlocked by Mary Evelyn, 1690  

Contemporary text Women Writers Resource Project: Mundis Mulibris or The Lady's Dressing Room Unlock'd 1690
Contemporary text Aphra Behn: The Ladies Looking Glass to Dress Herself By, or the Art of Charming 1697  
Splendor and Wit; Costume and Society in the Age of Louis XIV, The Sun King (1654 - 1715)

Men

17th Century Men's Fashions
B&W drawings & Patterns of Men's Fashionable Costume, 1678-1725
17th Century Men
Historical Boys Clothing (then navigate within site to page on this topic/era)
Guild Pages - Men's Costume Guidelines 1580-1620 Pirate/Peasant
The Metamorphoses of Court Ballet and Louis XIV
Of Men & Their Elegance
Chasuble, late 17th century French, silk, silver-gilt and silk thread, couching, satin stitch, 98 x 89 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
17TH CENTURY ENGLISH MEN’S CLOTHING
1691 Irish Jacobite Dress
The Earl of Arlington, with a patch on his nose, FAMSF: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
French Knight of Order of Malta 1678.
Knight of Order of Malta & page to Louis XIV.
Costumes 17th Century Knights of Malta
ALL THE WORLD ON STAGE: the Baroque period of Louis XIV. Video from the Roland Collection.

Women

17th Century Women's Fashion Plates
Engravings by Wenceslas Hollar of English Women's Dress of the Reign of Charles I
B&W drawings (& diagrams) of Women's & Children's Fashionable Costume, 1678-1725
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Women's Fashions of the 17th Century - 1645 Wenseslaus Hollar Engravings - Main Page

Review of The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe
Women's Fashions of the 17th Century - Hollar Engravings - Main Page 2
Reconstructing History — Common Women's Clothing in the Early to Mid-17th century
Rosewater from Plat's Delights for Ladies
Guild Pages - Women's Costume Guidelines 1580-1620 Pirate/Peasant
Gallery of Costume - Woman's Embroidered Stomacher 1690-1710
SK Knowledge Base - Working Class Costume Of 17th Century Women
17TH CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN’S CLOTHING
A Masque Gowne
17th Century Women in Art
Miss Constance Weston, FAMSF: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Tate Collections | General Collection | Sir Peter Lely
CGFA- Misc. Artists -L- Page 5
Sir Peter Lely
Peter Lely: Nell Gwynne and the Duke of St Albans
Fair Women Illustrations 2
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) (poet who wrote about how sexy Restoration women's dress was) Contemporary texts (Below)
Contemporary text Richard Lovelace: A Black Patch On Lucasta's Face  
Contemporary text A Looking-Glasse for Women (1644 Puritan rant against hair curling)
Contemporary text 1673 The Gentlewoman's Companion by Anon. probably Hannah Wooley  
Contemporary text 1675 The Gentlewoman's Companion by Hannah Wooley
 Fashions & Modesty  
 Following the New Fashions