The Costumer's Manifesto: Patterns and Pictures from Maurice Leloir's Histoire du Costume, Volume 10, 1678-1725

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Patterns and Pictures from Maurice Leloir's Histoire du Costume, Volume 10, 1678-1725

B&W drawings (& diagrams) of Women's & Children's Fashionable Costume

Skirt Diagram

1682

Ruffled gowns of 1708

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

English Costume from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwoman's Dresses and Their Construction: c.1660-1860

Mourning dresses, 1688 & 1685

Princess de Conte in a "city dress", and the Duchesse de Bourbon in a court dress at a salon in 1694.

Madame (wife of the King's brother) in 1693, and Princess Palatine in 1698 in full formal hunting dress.

Full hunting dress and mask (in hand), 1692.

Boned bodice/stays worn over a fancy shift and decorated petticoat, 1692

Lady putting on stays over a lace trimmed shift, 1697.

Dress in France in the Eighteenth Century

The Clothes That Wear Us : Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Colonial and Early American Fashions The English Dancing Master : Or, Plaine and Easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, With the Tune to Each Dance So, Ye Want to be a Reenactor? A Living History Handbook
Colonial Fashions Paper Dolls Tidings from the 18th Century

Diagram of a boned bodice/stays.

Pattern of a c.1715 pair of stays

Decorated bodices, 1694-1698.

Decorated skirts of court dresses, 1692-1700: The Duchesse de Chartres, Duchesse de Ventadour, Princess de Conti.

Back of a Saque Dress, 1718, and a Mantua, 1724.

A striped mantua of 1687

Three gowns showing the difference between Saque and Mantua styles.

A saque from a painting by Watteau

A maid puts on a lady's gown over a set of stays, 1724

Hoopskirts, 1719-1720

The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930 Four Hundred Years of Fashion

Early Dance Part 2 Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century : From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750 (Women and Men in History)

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How To Dance through Time Vol. IV: The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance

At home dress for ladies, 1696-97

At home dress for the morning worn over a boned bodice, 1692

Mantles, 1697

Steinkerque cravat 1695 and fur tippet 1694 worn in similar styles.

Fur collar of 1688

Aprons

Women's Shoes 1678-1725

Skating in winter, 1694

Maid of honor (of the court) dressing her hair from a fashion plate by Arnoult, 1693

Hairdressing, 1693-94

American Family of the Pilgrim Period Paper Dolls in Full Color

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

1700 : Scenes from London Life

Vatel

Restoration

Costume Close Up : Clothing Construction and Pattern, 1750-1790

Hair dresses 1683-94

Headdresses 1687-90

Court dresses, 1681-1695

Hair dresses of 1705-1710

Hair dresses of 1717-19

Mme de Maintenon 1697, Mlle. d'Auvergne 1693

Peignoir, 1694

Headdresses for aristocratic children 1699-1712

James Stuart and his sister 1698, the daughter of Coypel, 1700

Little girls painted by Watteau, note the leading strings.

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