18th Century Women’s Clothing & Accessories
Last updated: Jan 7, 2024
Undergarments
- Shifts
- Stays (also, women not wearing stays and women in exposed stays)
- Panniers
- Pockets (and visible pockets)
Gowns & Jackets
- Pleated-back gowns, including robes à la française and sack gowns
- Fitted-back gowns, including robes à l’anglaise and robes à la polonaise
- Round gowns
- Painted silk gowns
- Mantuas
- Riding habits
- Jackets, including the pet-en-l’air, caraco, and pierrot
- Bedgowns
- Shortgowns
- Striped clothing
- Zone front gowns
- Modern re-creations made with fabric from IKEA
- Monochrome Print Gowns
- Illustrations of women wearing print garments
Headwear
Footwear
Other accessories
- Aprons, with separate pages on bib-aprons, blue aprons, check aprons, and pocket aprons
- Breast Knots and Bows
- Cloaks, including cardinals; also working-class short cloaks and more fashionable capuchins, mantelets, and pelisses,
- Embroidered petticoats
- Engageantes, lacy ruffles or sleeve-flounces
- Equipages & chatelaines, several with watches
- Fly fringe
- Garters
- Kerchiefs & fichus
- Knit gloves and leather gloves
- Masks
- Maternity clothing
- Mitts
- Muffs
- Neck Ribbons
- Parasols
- Patterned handkerchiefs
- Petticoats bound along the bottom
- Pocketbooks
- Purses, reticules, work-bags, etc.
- Quilted petticoats
- Ribbon embroidery
- Sleeve buttons
- Spangles on fans, gowns, purses, and shoes
- Spectacles
- Stockings (and clocked stockings)
- Stomachers (and compères)
- Tambour embroidery
- Upcycling
- Waistcoats
- Women in men’s coats