historicalfashion
A blog posting historical fashion garments, portraits, or drawings from the Middle Ages to the 1950s, and some special exceptions for later dates. This includes photographs, explanation of the garment, and historical details. Long live the past!
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Open-front sack-back gown, 1760s. Amended photo set. For full listing, please click here

Caraco jacket, LACMA, c. 1760 (altered 1780)
all photos by me

Robe à la française, ca 1760 (textile ca 1750) France, LACMA

c. 1763

English Robe a la Francaise, LACMA, c. 1765
Silk dress ensemble, Museum of London, c. 1762-67

Bergère straw hat decorated in colored straw flowers, dates to the 1760s.
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Marie Antoinette, age 14.
Damn, just look at that lace…



