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Historical Fashion in Detail: the 17th and 18th Centuries

Early Dance Part 2 (Baroque Dance)

Jewelry : From Antiquity to the Present (World of Art)

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

Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume : 100 Engravings

Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwoman's Dresses and Their Construction: c.1660-1860
The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930

 
The Gallerie du Palais. In this plate by Abraham Bosse from 1636, it's obvious that despite the 1633 edict against decorated lace-trimmed dress, the fashionable crowds are again thronging to the milliners stalls in The Palais Royal market.

English Winter dress of 1643 rendered by Wenceslas Hollar

Well to do Housewife of Hamburg, plate by Wenceslas Hollar, 1643.

English Fashon plate of Spring 1654, based on a Hollar plate.

French lady in a Winter dress for 1677

Summer Dress of 1678

Lady in informal Winter costume of 1678

The Art of Dress : Clothes and Society, 1500-1914

Frenchman's Creek

All the Mornings of the World (1991)

Queen Christina

Restoration London : Engaging Anecdotes and Tantalizing Trivia from the Most Magnificent and Renowned City of Europe

Craft of Natural Dyeing

A Milliner's shop, c. 1680 The items on display are all fancy items of men's wear

"In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings" . Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter,' 1688

English lady of quality traveling the street incognito, 1689

1690 French fashion plate by Arnoult

Another plate by Arnoult around the same time

Negligee, 1693

Outdoor dress with Steinkirk scarf, 1693