18th century - Fashion History Timeline
Fitting & Proper: 18th Century Clothing from the Collection of the Chester County Historical Society. Texarkana: Scurlock, 1998. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41491125.
1780-1789 - Fashion History Timeline
2021年8月3日 · The late-eighteen-century formal suit was distinguished from the frock not only by its rich materials, but by its standing collar that emerged in the 1760s and grew in height through the end of the century, single-breasted closure, and the inverted-V shape of the single-breasted waistcoat skirts.
1770-1779 - Fashion History Timeline
2021年7月29日 · Many of the above-mentioned styles are illustrated in the Galerie des Modes et costumes français, one of the first regular fashion publications that emerged in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, signaling the beginnings of an established fashion press (Fig. 16). The large-format black-and-white or hand-colored images depict single ...
1790-1799 - Fashion History Timeline
2017年8月1日 · New forms of jewelry were also introduced in the late eighteenth century to compliment the overall simplicity of neoclassical dress. Like fashionable hats, shoes, and shawls, jewelry expressed the wearer’s personal taste and her wealth (Figs. 15, 16).
1700-1709 - Fashion History Timeline
2020年10月10日 · The full-bottomed wig that had come into vogue in the late seventeenth century remained popular in the first decade of the eighteenth century; fashionable colors were “white, flaxen, brown, grey, grizzle (iron grey), [and] black,” but powdered wigs—usually white or grey—were also worn, a trend that would persist throughout most of the ...
1750-1759 - Fashion History Timeline
2021年7月28日 · The mid-eighteenth century marked the height of rococo influence on women’s dress; colorful floral-patterned silk gowns and matching petticoats with three-dimensional trimmings, often applied in serpentine bands, were shown to advantage over wide panniers.
1760-1769 - Fashion History Timeline
2021年7月29日 · In the last three decades of the eighteenth century, other, more informal styles became fashionable for daywear and the robe à la française was increasingly worn for evening. For men, the distinction between the subdued informality of Englishmen’s dress and the colorful formality of Continental styles (particularly those of France and Italy ...
spencer jacket - Fashion History Timeline
2019年8月11日 · Fashion historian J. Anderson Black defines a spencer jacket in A History of Fashion (1990) as: “A very short-waisted jacket originally worn by women in the 1790s over their Empire dresses. Later a similar style was adopted by …
1791 – Rose Adélaïde Ducreux, Self-Portrait with a Harp
2017年2月24日 · Ducreux’s self-portrait portrays not only fashionable dress of the late-eighteenth century, but also the central concept and practice of artful living in the period. Musical appreciation and proficiency, for example, were essential components in the formation of elite social personae.
19th century - Fashion History Timeline
For a brief overview, see the V&A's "Introduction to 19th-Century Fashion" and "History of Fashion, 1840-1900." For more in-depth information, see the decade overviews and bibliographies below . Decade Overviews