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The Art of Dress : Fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820
Dress in France in the Eighteenth Century Period Costume for Stage & Screen : Patterns for Women's Dress 1500-1800 Fitting & Proper
Swashbuckling : A Step-By-Step Guide to the Art of Stage Combat and Theatrical Swordplay
Haute Couture & Pret-A-Porter : Mode 1750-2000 Brotherhood of the Wolf Dangerous Liaisons

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

Fashion in Detail : From the 17th and 18th Centuries The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930

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

The History of Underclothes Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwoman's Dresses and Their Construction: c.1660-1860
  Marat Sade (DVD) The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France Hair & Wigs for the Stage : Step by Step Dangerous Liaisons (Widescreen Edition) Madame De Pompadour : Sex, Culture and Power

Erotica 17th-18th Century

Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

At Home With the Marquis De Sade : A Life
The Libertine Reader
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
The Libertine (A new play about the Restoration period & Lord Rochester)
Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
History of My Life (Volumes I & II)
History of My Life (Volumes III & IV)
 
Casanova : The Man Who Really Loved Women

 

Baroque & Rococo: Art & Culture

Les Liaisons Dangereuses Costume Designs & Links

Costume Research Sources for the 1780's.  [Yes, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the play, is specifically set c. 1785-6, not c.1750 as done in Dangerous Liaisons, the filmed version of the play.]

  Man's Coat of 1780 & pattern.

  1786 coat.

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1787 robe de Anglaise, pattern and diagram

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Click the Image, to see Carl Kohler's 18th Century Corset Pattern

More Free 18th Century Clothing Patterns

These, plus Not so Free ones you can order full size

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. Cameron Gallery, Tsarkoe Selo, Russia.

1786 riding dresses in England, Fairholt

late 1780's

Fp012.jpg (89028 bytes)  Fp014.jpg (66683 bytes) Fp015.jpg (72861 bytes) Fp018.jpg (73705 bytes) Fp019.jpg (67450 bytes)  Embroidery Patterns for "Court" suits of the second half of the Century

Fp020.jpg (46881 bytes) Fp021.jpg (45379 bytes) Fp022.jpg (33110 bytes) Fp023.jpg (46275 bytes) 18th Century Embroidery patterns typical of those found on 1780's-90's waistcoats.

MVC-031F.JPG (59020 bytes) MVC-032F.JPG (61780 bytes) MVC-033F.JPG (53292 bytes) MVC-034F.JPG (48205 bytes) Embroidered French court Suits in The Musee de la Mode et du Textile

More Pictures like this.  Even More pictures like this.

MVC-021F.JPG (55508 bytes) MVC-022F.JPG (51163 bytes) MVC-023F.JPG (57279 bytes) Silk Gown from the 1780's in The Musee de la Mode et du Textile

1780lady1.jpg (27022 bytes) 1780lady2.jpg (25656 bytes) Two portraits of members of the French Royal Family c.1780.

1780'sgown.jpg (17839 bytes) 1780's French Gown

433_1780.jpg (46226 bytes) Frock coat of green-pink shot taffeta with embroidery, 1780.  Coat of green taffeta, (city-gentlemen's dress). (Kohler)

colorplate14.JPG (42318 bytes) c. 1790 (Kohler)

Costumedechevalen.JPG (32406 bytes) Gentleman's redingote, 1786.    (Quicherat)

Elegantenfrac.JPG (33288 bytes) Elegant gentleman in a frock coat, 1787   (Quicherat)

443.jpg (63010 bytes) Red and white silk dress, 1780's  (Kohler)

448.jpg (43595 bytes) Caraco Jacket, c.1780-90 (Kohler)

Dameenredingote.JPG (46491 bytes) Lady in Redingote "a la mode anglaise" of 1787.  (Quicherat)

Deshabilleencaraco.JPG (48748 bytes) Informal dress with Caraco jacket, 1788. (Quicherat)

DeshabillealaSuzanne.JPG (98905 bytes) Lady's informal dress in the style of Figaro's Suzanne, 1785.  Formal dress for winter with pelisse, 1786 (Quicherat)

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

36_fashion_french151.JPG (59291 bytes) French fashion illustration, c.1780, image provided by ACarter

3t.jpg (9081 bytes) A calash and a brocade dress, 1775-1795. V&A

15t.jpg (7849 bytes) A jacket of French brocade. 1780-95. V&A

16t.jpg (8826 bytes) An interesting bodice and skirt. The latter part of Louis XVI. reign. V&A

19t.jpg (12332 bytes)  A simple dress of striped poplin with a quilted petticoat. 1780-95.  V&A

20t.jpg (6365 bytes) A dress of the male style in vogue between 1780-95. V&A

18th Century Costume Links (about 1000 category-sorted links to pages on 18th Century dress!)

18th Century Recommended Costume Books

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