#18th fashion

[lostingham]

My Girl is sooooo pretty ✨

I’ve decided to give Athanase the same illness than the french lawyer and deputy Georges Couthon, who suffered of severe osteoarthritis attacks and chronic muscular pain. He also has tuberculosis in his younth and miraculously survived but still got after-effects in his breathing .

He is my little princess with every diseases !

[marzipanandminutiae]

I was about to be irritated at a shitty "kids' education" website on 1770s clothing but then I learned that there's a staymaker buried at King's Chapel and now I'm just delighted to know the gravesite of a clothing worker from that era and I want to take him flowers

[heaveninawildflower]

Textile Sample Book (French, circa 1840-50).

Woven wool and silk fabrics on paper.

Images and text information courtesy The Met.

[toxxtt]

playing around with some historical french fashions on furina (+ neuvi).. I think she should always get big silly hats

18th+19th century mens fashion is one of my fav fav fav things is ever so this was fun 🫡 love being fashion history neurodivergent

[rowzien]

The Trans Court Suit

This was my big project I made over the summer! I am beyond proud of and happy with the coat.

The first initial project I wanted for this was a pink waistcoat. I grew up liking pink and most of my stuff was, but that (along with growing up in a hot pink room) made me start to resent pink a lot especially as a teenager. (I think a lot of trans guys have similar stories.) But of course pink was very popular for men throughout a lot of European fashion history. So in many ways this was a self healing project for me, at least in that regard. Which I think was a success!

I actually found the first two portraits after I started working on the outfit, they looked perfect! The first especially is super close to my hair.

The silks for the coat as well as the linen interfacings were second hand or scraps in my stash. The cotton sateen was from Burnley and Trowbridge. This is the first project I fully drafted myself. The waistcoat and breeches were made from an 1820s manual and the coat was primarily taken from Period Patterns by Doris Edison, using also Agreeable Tyrant for interfacings and The Taylor's Complete Guide (for shape reference).

This is also the most hand sewing I’ve done for an outfit. Both of the fronts of the coat and waistcoat are completely by hand. Most of the coat is by hand with machine for structural/backstitches, mostly the seams but not the edges. In total there are 22 buttons.

I made the waistcoat straight across for two reasons A. So I can wear it with my other stuff B. I didn’t have any more trim, that was it. I’ll probably make a more 18th century style waistcoat out of white for this (at some point).

The breeches ended up being too small for my thighs so I started getting frustrated with the fit and rushed them by the end so I could move on. (I accidentally sewed the buttonholes on the wrong side).

[frostedmagnolias]

Coat

c. 1770-1799

The National Museum of Norway

[leomakeshistory]

God bless IKEA for making passable 18th century fabrics in the form of duvet covers

Like ??

It’s giving chintz it’s giving brocade it’s giving Spitalfields silk

Blesséd and thankful 🙏😌

[fashionsfromhistory]

Riding Habit

c.1770-1780

England

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 2013.17.3.1)

[artschoolglasses]

Muslin dress with silk taffeta embroidered with silver, American (possibly), 1795-1800

From the Museum at FIT

[fashioncreature]

Selkie FW25

[lostingham]

[paintingispoetry]

Joshua Reynolds, "The Age of Innocence", ca. 1785-88

[lousolversons]

Walking On Broken Glass - Annie Lennox (1992), Dir. Sophie Muller

[beggars-opera]

We are so unnecessarily harsh to historical people and their trends. “ew why did people want their hair gray why would you put powder on your head” shut up YOU DO put powder on your head it’s called dry shampoo. It’s the exact same thing it just has a different name now. It also came in lots of different colors back besides white, sometimes you could even get it in pink but no one remembers that. And young people are still dyeing their hair gray for fashion. The only difference is we need less powder now because we wash our hair more so the trend is shiny hair and back then it was matte.

In three hundred years kids will be making fun of you too. You are not immune to fashion trends

[eirene]

Portrait Of A Lady As A Vestal Virgin Angelica Kauffmann

[historical-fashion-polls]

from the submitter: this is my favourite vintage postcard that i've collected! the postcard itself was created and sent ca. 1910s, but the lovely ladies in the art appear to be wearing late 1700's fashion!

submitted by @seeraphina 💚💜