The Costumer's Manifesto: 18th Century Clothing Patterns

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18th Century Clothing Patterns

A Tailor's Shop in 1760's France from Diderot

Pattern for a Jutaucorps with pagoda sleeve from Leloir

Pattern for a sleeved Waistcoat, 1715-1730 from Leloir

Robe de chambre (aka "banyan" or "nightgown"): 1688, the poet Lenoble in a robe de chambre, and a gentleman, 1695 from Leloir.

Fabulous Fit? Royal Form Dressform Size 18
Costumes at BuyCostumes Costume Close Up : Clothing Construction and Pattern, 1750-1790

Men's Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Costume : Cut and Fashion

Costumes at BuyCostumes

Pattern for a Robe de chambre (aka "banyan" or "nightgown").from Leloir

M. le Duc d'Enghien wearing the extremely wide pagoda sleeve worn from 1700-1705 from Leloir Pattern for man's early 18th Century coat "Justaucorps" from Leloir

Pattern for man's 18th Century vests and breeches

from Leloir

Pattern for a Mid 18th Century Robe de Francaise (Lady's Dress) from Leloir

Diagram of a boned bodice/stays from Leloir.

Pattern of a c.1715 pair of stays from Leloir

Diagrams for a Mid 18th Century Robe de Francaise from Leloir

Mid 18th Century hoops and stays from Leloir

Mid 18th Century hoop diagrams from Leloir

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

Fitting & Proper (more patterns)

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

The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930

Historic Colonial French Dress : A Guide to Re-Creating North American French Clothing

Corsets and Crinolines

Costume in Detail : 1730-1930

Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwoman's Dresses and Their Construction: c.1660-1860

Pattern of a white satin dress of 1760 (pictures Below) by McClellan

1760 Wedding gown of Mrs. St. Clair, trimmed with lace in festooned flounces by McClellan

1787 robe de Anglaise, pattern and diagram

by Leloir

from Leloir

Two Breeches Patterns From The Taylor's Complete Guide (1796)

Patterns fron L'Art du Tailleur (1767)
Cloak with collar from L'Art du Tailleur (1767)

Coat Patterns based on the Encyclopedia of Panchouke.

Tidings from the 18th Century
Patterns for Costume Accessories The Solution to Almost Any Costume Accessory Need Books Arnold S. Levine,Robin

Dream Sewing Spaces : Design & Organization for Spaces Large & Small

Available from the Nightmare Factory

Making Antique Furniture Reproductions: Instructions and Measured Drawings for 40 Classic Projects

A History of Costume, Karl Kohler.

1786 coat from Kohler

1792 coat from Kohler

1794 coat from Kohler .

Pattern For A (Woman's) Caraco Jacket from Kohler

1790's Woman's Jacket Pattern from Kohler

18th Century Pattern Sheet for a Couturier's Workshop

detail picture of breeches from Diderot

Detail pictures of three coats from Diderot:

Mid-Century Corset from Kohler

The Rococo Interior : Decoration and Social Spaces in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris

Dramatic Works of the Marquis de Sade

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sp2.jpg (82280 bytes) The Scarlet Pimpernel 1982

tomjones.gif (7515 bytes) Tom Jones (1963) Making Early American and Country Furniture

Pattern of Above Corset from Kohler

Man's Coat of 1780. from Kohler

Pattern of Above Coat. from Kohler

Pattern for A Manteau, about 1776 from Kohler

Pattern for a Roquelaure (Man's Overcoat) c.1750 from Kohler

See even more 18th century patterns at my page Plates related to 18th Century dress from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia

Links:

Smoke & Fire Homepage

Period Costuming By Wingeo

Historical Polish Patterns 16th-18th Century

Tin Box Patterns

The Recollections of J.P. Ryan; Patterns Recreating the clothing of the Georgian era

18th Century Men's and Women's Patterns

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