18th Century Men’s Clothing & Accessories

Last updated: Mar 25, 2026

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• Breeches (and leather breeches)
• Coats
• Jackets
• Shirts (and check shirts)
• Suits
• Waistcoats (with additional pages on printed waistcoats, uncut waistcoat fronts, and waistcoats with ties or lacing on the back, and also depictions of men wearing waistcoats without coats on top)
• Striped clothing

Headwear

• Hair bags and bag wigs
• Hats, including cocked hats and tricorn hats
• Caps, including knit caps, nightcaps, and working men’s cloth caps
• Scots bonnets

Cold-weather outerwear & accessories

• Cloaks
• Gaiters & spatterdashes
• Greatcoats & watchcoats
• Knit gloves
• Mittens
• Muffs

Other accessories

• Aprons that button onto clothing, blue aprons, and pocket aprons
• Banyans, wrappers, morning gowns, and nightgowns
• Button links
• Cravats
• Equipages & chatelaines, several with watches
• Garters
• Gloves
• Handkerchiefs
• Mariners’ cuffs
• Masks
• Pocketbooks and leather pocketbooks
• Shirt Buckles
• Shoes & boots
• Sleeve buttons
• Smocks & frocks for farmers, haymakers, etc.
• Spangles on coats, waistcoats, and banyans
• Spectacles, and tinted spectacles
• Stockings (and striped stockings, clocked stockings, ribbed stockings, and chaussons)
• Stocks
• Tambour embroidery
• Textile reuse & upcycling
• Wooden legs