The Costumer's Manifesto: 18th Century Costumes from the Victoria and Albert Museum as seen in "Old English Costumes" c.1908

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18th Century Costumes from the Victoria and Albert Museum as seen in "Old English Costumes" c.1908

A gallery in the Victoria and Albert Museum devoted to old English costumes.

Plate 1. A dress of the early 18th Century, with a fine example of quilted petticoat.

Four Hundred Years of Fashion (V&A Costume Collection)

What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America

The Art of Dress : Fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820

Fashion in Detail : From the 17th and 18th Centuries (V&A Costumes)

The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930

Plate 2. A suit of Watteau's time, in gold brocade.

Plate 3. A calash and a brocade dress, 1775-1795.

Plate 4. A pink brocade suit of perfect style. Mid 18th Century.

Plate 5. A beautiful plain dress of brown silk, with an apron of gold embroidery. 1750-1770.

Plate 6. A dress of Spitalfields' silk. About the middle of the 18th Century.

Plate 7. A Gentleman's suit of pale blue silk, decorated with beautiful embroidery. 1770-85.

Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century : From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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

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Georgiana : Duchess of Devonshire

Classic Georgian Style

Plate 8. Plum colored shot silk flowered brocade dress with sack back. 1755-75.

Plate 9. A man of importance. 1775-85.

Plate 10. A sack-back dress of embroidered Eau-de-nil silk. The early part of George III. reign.

Plate 11. A mother and child. 1750-80.

Plate 12. A suit of interesting character and cut. Worn between 1780-95.

Plate 13. An interesting dress with embroidered apron. 1770-80.

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Revolutionary Life

The Gentleman's Daughter : Women's Lives in Georgian England

English Society in the Eighteenth Century (Penguin Social History of Britain)

Plate 14. Superb silk brocade dress. 1775-85.

Plate 15. A jacket of French brocade. 1780-95.

Plate 16. An interesting bodice and skirt. The latter part of Louis XVI. reign.

Plate 17. A revolutionary supporter.

Plate 18. A dress of charming proportion in beautiful French brocade. Period 1775-85.

English Costume from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries

Masterpieces of Women's Costume of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Plate 19. A simple dress of striped poplin with a quilted petticoat. 1780-95.

Plate 20. A dress of the male style in vogue between 1780-95.

Plate 21. The latest mode of the 18th Century.

Continue forward to the 19th Century plates from this book.

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