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The Brunswick is one of several informal jacket-and-petticoat costumes popular in the later 18th century, derived from working class costume but made up in fine fabrics (usually silk). [ 2 ] Originating in France (based on a German fashion), the Brunswick was also popular in England and the United States as a traveling costume.
It was the most formal dress model worn after 1700, when the mantua dress had replaced it in all but the most formal occasions, and continued to be worn as court dress during the entire century. Court dress, the grand habit de cour or "stiff-bodied" gown, retained the styles of the 1670s after it had been replaced by the mantua dress in all ...
The sack-back gown or robe à la française was a women's fashion of 18th century Europe. [1] At the beginning of the century, the sack-back gown was a very informal style of dress. At its most informal, it was unfitted both front and back and called a sacque, contouche, or robe battante. By the 1770s the sack-back gown was second only to court ...
The slop trade was flourishing by the 18th century, as slop-sellers realized that they could sell to the general public as well as to the army and navy, and also received a boost from the Napoleonic Wars. [6] [7] [8] Slop work became organized into a system of large clothing warehouses subcontracting out to small workshops or individuals.
Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology; An Analysis of An Eighteenth Century Woman's Quilted Waistcoat by Sharon Ann Burnston Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine; French Fashions 1700 - 1789 from The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, Paul Lecroix, 1876 "Introduction to 18th Century Men and Women's Fashion".
In France in the 17th century, women who rode wore an outfit called a devantiere. [1] The skirt of the devantiere was split up the back to enable astride riding. [2] By the early 19th century, in addition to describing the whole costume, a devantiere could describe any part of the riding habit, be it the skirt, [2] the apron, [3] or the riding ...
Family patriarch Simon Lazarus (1808–1877) opened a one-room men's clothing store in downtown Columbus in 1851. By 1870, with improvements to the industry in the mass manufacture of men's uniforms for the Civil War, the family business expanded to include ready-made men's civilian clothing, and eventually, a complete line of merchandise. [2]
The origin of the term mobcap is a compound of mob "dishabille, casually dressed" + cap.It may be modeled on Dutch mop (muts) "woman's cap." [1]From at least 1730 to at least 1750, a single mob cap could be referred to as "a suit of mobs" [2] or 'a suit of mobbs', [3] while the plural mob caps could be described as 'suits of mobs' [4] or 'suits of mobbs'.