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Timeline of Costume History
Late 18th Century Europe Part 2 (1789 to 1800ce)

Accessories
Book & Gift Store

Classes
Corsets & Underwear
Computers
Costumes 4 Sale
Costume e-Lists
Dance Costumes
Designs & Designers
Dolls
"Ethnic" Dress
Fashion Theory
Free eGroup
Free Stuff
Halloween
(Costume) History
How-To
Kinky Clothing
Major Sites
Military Uniforms
Movie Costumes
Museums
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Occupational & Occasion- Specific
Patterns
Questions?
Religious Dress
Theatre History
Travel for Costumers
Unite!

Vintage Clothing
Weddings
Weird Clothing

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

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

The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930

Costume in Detail : 1730-1930

Dress in France in the Eighteenth Century

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

The Culture of Clothing : Dress and Fashion in the 'Ancien Regime' (Past and Present Publications)

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

Textiles for Colonial Clothing
Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century : From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

sp2.jpg (82280 bytes) The Scarlet Pimpernel 1982

Fight Direction for Stage and Screen

Danton

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


  Dramatic Works of the Marquis de Sade

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

summerdress1794t.jpg (19054 bytes) Fashion Plates 1790-1800

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Rococo Style
cameron28.JPG (67739 bytes) cameron29.JPG (62640 bytes) Two European style full court dress suits of  patterned velvet with colored silk embroidery c.1780-1800.
Proletarian and Peasant Dress

Membredelacommune.JPG (37853 bytes) Member of the Commune of Paris, 1793   (Quicherat)

 

1779mant.jpg (13636 bytes)Men---The 18th Century Man
Robealacircassienne.JPG (100236 bytes) Circassian gown with scarf and chemise.   Formal dress of a robe a' l'anglaise from the beginning of 1789, from the Cabinet des Modes (Quicherat) The Cut of Men's Clothes 1700-1800
Typedela.JPG (76386 bytes) A "merveilleuse" of 1796. Dress and Spencer Jacket and "baby" style cap in the fashion of 1797. (Quicherat) 18th Century Recommended Costume Books
Patrioteselegants.JPG (66597 bytes) Fashions for the elegant revolutionary in 1789 and 1790 from the Cabinet des Modes  (Quicherat)

corset1_small.gif (2314 bytes) Lingerie

A Speedy 18th Century Corset

cameron19.JPG (32040 bytes) cameron31.JPG (72525 bytes) White silk suit with silver embroidery worn by the future Alexander I to his wedding c.1790. Click Here for high resolution image (71k) 51t.jpg (11774 bytes) Lace

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Costumes Francaise: The Convention & the Directory

millersbenefitt.jpg (13439 bytes)18th Century Theatre Engravings by Hogarth
Varchauddejournaux.JPG (44814 bytes) News "boy" of 1797   (Quicherat) The Museum of London: 18th Century London
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Costumes Worn at the University of Cambridge in 1803
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Pockets, Bags and Muffs
PromenadePalaisRoyal.JPG (68653 bytes) Paris 1792 (Boehn) PrincessFrederika.JPG (69369 bytes) Princess Frederika 1794 (Boehn)
ChodowieckiReformDress.JPG (35652 bytes) Suggestions for dress reform. (Boehn) diderotwkshp.gif (60356 bytes) Embroidery
MmeVigeeLebrun.JPG (38699 bytes) Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun the court painter to Marie Antoinette.  After the Revolution made life in Paris dangerous for her, she fled to Naples, and later St. Petersburg, where she painted court ladies in both those cities. (Boehn) 1786coatpatt.gif (1484 bytes)    Patterns
heidloff1795.JPG (48485 bytes) 1795 Available from the Nightmare Factory 
FromPromenade.JPG (85877 bytes) c. 1790 (Boehn) ridi1t.jpg (7761 bytes) 18th Century Costume Flicks
1790feb.jpg (31173 bytes)  1790june.jpg (39287 bytes) Costume Plates of the French Revolution & Empire How do you make those fluffy elbow ruffles you see on 18th Century Saque gowns?
452_1790.jpg (19912 bytes) Green silk frock coat of 1790 (Kohler) 288_small.GIF (1980 bytes)
Hair and Wigs
heidloff1796.JPG (47853 bytes) 1796

Fabrics

 

461_1792.jpg (62876 bytes) "Incroyable" style frock coat of blue and white striped silk, c.1792 (Kohler)

Plates of 18th Century French Women's Hair & Hats by Hoey

PromenadeStJamesPk.JPG (120764 bytes) London c.1792 (Boehn)

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Women---The 18th Century Woman

heidloff1795.JPG (48485 bytes) Heidloff's Gallery of Fashion 1795 (Boehn)

The Cut of Women's Clothes 1700-1800

heidloff1796.JPG (47853 bytes) Heidloff's Gallery of Fashion 1796 (Boehn)

Plates of 18th Century French Women's Dress by Hoey
1780'sgrandgown.jpg (20658 bytes) Late 1780's Grand gown (French) fanlogo.jpg (21837 bytes)
Fans

449_1795.jpg (22431 bytes) Dress with long Caraco Jacket of brown striped silk, 1795 (Kohler)

Jewelry
1790'shead.jpg (21215 bytes) C. 1789 French Hairdo

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18thfrenchgrenadier.jpg (17534 bytes) late 18th Century French grenadier Patches and Makeup
c1790constancy.jpg (65938 bytes) c. 1790  
  mules.jpg (16580 bytes) Shoes
18t.jpg (11962 bytes)18th Century Costumes from the Victoria and Albert Museum as seen in "Old English Costumes" c.1908 chrome4.jpg (129108 bytes) Plates from The 18th Century; It's Institutions, Customs and Costumes: France 1700-1789 by Paul Lacroix
heidloff1796A.JPG (45538 bytes) Heidloff's Gallery of Fashion 1796 (Boehn) 3.jpg (53965 bytes) Revealing 1790's English fashions at an aristocratic "Rout" party, caricatured by Gillray

heidloff1796B.JPG (47820 bytes) Heidloff's Gallery of Fashion 1796 (Boehn)

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475.jpg (37578 bytes) Fan with Neo Classical motifs, end of the 18th Century. (Kohler)

Jacques-Louis David - Monsieur Seriziat
Monsieur Seriziat
Jacques-Louis David
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Parisian Ladies - Femme VI
Femme VI
Parisian Ladies
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Sir Thomas Lawrence - Pinkie: Sarah Barrett Moulton, 1794
Pinkie: Sarah Barrett Moulton, 1794
Sir Thomas Lawrence
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The Gentleman's Daughter : Women's Lives in Georgian England
Female Tars : Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail
Mesmer
Parisian Ladies - Femme II
Femme II
Parisian Ladies
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Parisian Ladies - Femme III
Femme III
Parisian Ladies
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Parisian Ladies - Femme IV
Femme IV
Parisian Ladies
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Elegantalamodede1799.JPG (47294 bytes) Fashionable men's dress of 1799 (Quicherat) 451_1800.jpg (24361 bytes) Cap of white embroidered linen, 1800 (Kohler) OnTheBoulevard.JPG (70242 bytes) 1797  (Boehn)
  
BoulevardDesItaliens.JPG (59392 bytes) Heidloff's Gallery of Fashion c.1797 (Boehn)

 

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Color plates of original 18th Century costumes from Karl Kohler's Kostumekunde
1800frenchcaptaingrenadiers.jpg (16193 bytes) a Captain of Grenadiers, French, around 1800
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A fashionable English mother in caricature (Boehn)
calthrop1720_small.jpg (3360 bytes)18th Century Color Plates from English Costume 1066-1820, 1906, by Dion Clayton Calthrop Costumedebal.JPG (63796 bytes) 1. Costume for a ball "a la sauvage", 1796.  2. "Greek" style dress, 1797.   (Quicherat)
1700 : Scenes from London
  Marat Sade (DVD)
Citizens : A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Sir Thomas Lawrence - Pinkie: Sarah Barrett Moulton, 1794
Pinkie: Sarah Barrett Moulton, 1794
Sir Thomas Lawrence
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George Romney - The Beckford Children
The Beckford Children
George Romney
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George Romney - Miss Willoughby
Miss Willoughby
George Romney
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Sir Joshua Reynolds - Simplicity Dawson
Simplicity Dawson
Sir Joshua Reynolds
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