Pendant
c. 1700s
maker unknown
“Gold pendant, the border set with half pearls surrounded by an embroidery of two birds under faceted crystal.”
V&A Museum
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Breathtaking Vivien Leigh as Emma Hamilton in That Hamilton Woman 1941 🤍
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Needlebound Mitts
Pair of embroidered needlebound mitts, made in Heddal, Telemark in 1727.
Norsk Folkemuseum - Photographer Eva Br��nd
Both needlebinding and embroidery are entirely in wool.
unknown if base colour is just white sheep or bleached in some way.
intitials "PT SS"
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Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727-1788)
Henrietta Read, later Henrietta Meares, c.1777
Huntington Library, San Marino CA
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18th century dresses at Malmaison in France. Current exhibition from the Château de Bois-Préau: 1769, Corsica at the Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte
For several years, the National Museum of the House of Bonaparte in Ajaccio, Napoleon's birthplace where his family lived since the end of the 15th century, has been exploring with talent the history of Corsican society, the architecture of patrician houses, their furnishings and the art of living in Corsica in the 18th century.
For the first time, the synthesis of this work will be presented at the National Museum of châteaux des Malmaison and Bois-Préau on the ground floor of the newly restored Château de Bois-Préau.
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In Wuthering Heights, outfits are not often described in much detail. After her stay at Thrushcross Grange, however, Cathy is described as wearing "a feathered beaver, a long cloth habit... a grand plaid silk frock, white trousers, ...burnished shoes... (and) gloves" When I first read that, I had no clue what a 'habit' or 'feathered beaver' was supposed to be. so I did some research. A riding habit is a dress women used to wear while riding horses. the 'feathered beaver' was probably a beaver fur hat with feathers. I decided that since I had looked into it so much, I may as well draw my own interpretation of the outfit! Here are some of the reference images I used while drawing this (1) (2) (3)
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In another life, I wore banyans every day. What's a banyan? Well, the gorgeous dressing gown you're looking at is a very early example of one, dating from the early 1700s.
Banyans were popular among men in Europe, and the brighter the better. If you're watched Our Flag Means Death, you'll see how Stede really leaned into the trend. Banyans remained popular until they morphed into dressing gowns we're more familiar with today.
The design was based off of similar garments from India, and indeed are an example of immediate appropriation (read up on the British East India Company to get a sample of that) garments and designs.
This gorgeous example of a banyan is made of cotton and is similar to chintz in a lot of ways. In this case it's described as mordant painted and resist dyed rather than block printing, but they're very similar. Given the description from the museum, it appears the fabric was made in India and then assembled in the Netherlands.
Absolutely stunning piece of extant clothing, and still so vivid! From the Royal Ontario Museum, whose entries are the stuff dreams are made of (AND SO MANY PICTURES).
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robe à la française
c. early 1770s to early 1780s
brocaded silk trimmed with silk braid
The John Bright Collection
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Silk damask robe a'langlaise. Spitalfields silk c.1735, dress c.1765.
via fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu
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time for an extremely specific fashion history question: does anybody have any references to what winter wear for common people looked like in western europe in approx the mid-1700s??? anything from around 1720-1780 would be an amazing help, especially menswear. just practical warm clothing and work wear for the outdoors.
I have been Googling for hours and I’m getting almost nothing useful, mostly just upper class fashion, which is basically the opposite of what I’m looking for
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