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English court dress from the 1660s, made of silver tissue and decorated with applied parchment lace. [4] From the Fashion Museum, Bath. Peter Lely portrays Two Ladies of the Lake Family wearing satin dresses over shifts or chemises with voluminous sleeves. Their hair is worn in masses of ringlets to the shoulders on either side, and both wear ...
Working-class people in 18th century England and America often wore the same garments as fashionable people—shirts, waistcoats, coats and breeches for men, and shifts, petticoats, and dresses or jackets for women—but they owned fewer clothes and what they did own was made of cheaper and sturdier fabrics.
The costume of the eighteenth century, if lacking in the refinement and grace of earlier times, was distinctly quaint and picturesque. [1] Distinction was made in this period between full dress worn at court and for formal occasions, and undress or everyday, daytime clothes. As the decades progressed, fewer and fewer occasions called for full ...
The history of clothing (Western fashion) generally covers clothing worn in Western Europe, the Americas, and countries under European or American influence from c. 1750 to World War II. Clothing popularly worn in Medieval Europe is categorised under Category:Medieval European costume. Modern clothing is categorised under Category:History of ...
A button-down or button-down shirt is a dress shirt with a button-down collar – a collar having the ends fastened to the shirt with buttons. [ 1 ] A dress shirt is normally made from woven cloth , and is often accompanied by a tie , jacket , suit , or formalwear , but a dress shirt may also be worn more casually.
The homespun movement was started in 1767 by Quakers in Boston, Massachusetts, to encourage the purchase of goods, especially apparel, manufactured in the American Colonies. [1] The movement was created in response to the British Townshend Acts of 1767 and 1768, in the early stages of the American Revolution. [2] [3]
Pages in category "17th-century fashion" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total. ... Magua (clothing) Maîtresses couturières; Manchu platform ...
The long, tight sleeves of the early 17th century grew shorter, fuller, and looser. A common style of the 1620s and 1630s was the virago sleeve, a full, slashed sleeve gathered into two puffs by a ribbon or other trim above the elbow. In France and England, lightweight bright or pastel-coloured satins replaced dark, heavy fabrics.