18th Century Women’s Clothing & Accessories
Last updated: Mar 25, 2026
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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
- Shoes, including embroidered shoes and tied shoes
- Mules and slippers
- Clogs
- Pattens
Other accessories
- Aprons, with separate pages on bib-aprons, blue aprons, check aprons, pocket aprons, and embroidery patterns for 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
- Jumps
- Kerchiefs & fichus
- Knit gloves and leather gloves
- Masks
- Maternity clothing
- Mitts
- Muffatees
- Muffs
- Neck Ribbons
- Parasols
- Patterned handkerchiefs
- Petticoats bound along the bottom
- Pocketbooks
- Portrait miniatures
- 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
- Tippets
- Upcycling and textile reuse
- Waistcoats
- Wigs, perukes, plaits, and artificial hair
- Women in men’s coats