18 century british literature fashion presentation
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18th Century Fashionand Literature
Carla Schmidt
1770-1790’s Time of transition Informality
• Men: full formal dress goes out• Women: rigid styles give way to more
natural
1770’s Men Full formal dress found only
in court Coat cut back
• buttons no longer necessary, aluxury item
Winter – bright or dark colors,silk or velvet
Summer – pastels, lighter silk
p.208-212
1770’s Men Silhouette: tall /slim, short waistcoat,
tighter breeches, narrow sleeves(immovable arms)
Improvement of tailoring andmen’s physique
Natural hair becomes morepopular
p.208-212
1770’s Men
Young Men – “macaronis”and “élégant”• Stripes to accent figure,
tight coat, inside pocketinstead of outside, flappedpocket, nosegay in thebutton-hole, vast shoebuckles, high powdered wigs
Caricature
p.208-212
1770’s Women “The variety of fashionable dress in the
1770s and 1780s was immense” Sack dresses popular until the end of
the decade Hoop went out of fashion except at
court – hip pads replaced it Informality – jacket and skirt Strong colors
p.219-226
1770’s Women Hairstyles increase in height and
complexity• curls piled high on the head, feathers,
jewels
p.219-226
1780’s Men Trend: “It was Dr. Johnson in his ‘rusty brown’ suit, rather
than Oliver Goldsmith in his ‘bloom-coloured coat’, that fitted the mood of the last quarter of the century”
P 212-216
1780’s Men Early 1780’s – most English wore “short
white waistcoat, black breeches, white silk stockings, and a frock, generally of a very dark blue cloth which looks like black”
Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther – change in trends
P 212-216
1780’s Men Frock coat came in – French gave it
different styles Continent adopting English recreation
(riding) and the clothes that went with them
Shoe buckles at court used gems but outside still English style – cut steel
p.212-216
1780’s Men Round hat replacing three-cornered – more practical for
country life Plain overcoats that look almost like Greek/Roman drapery
p.212-216
1780’s Women Sack dress changes: “There was a complete
division at the waist and the skirt was set with tiny pleats into the bodice.”
p.222-228
1780’s Women 1783 Marie Antoinette
painted wearing asimple white muslin(like a shift or chemise)• Controversial painting
but the dress stylebecame fashionable.
p.222-228
French Revolution French Revolution (Estates General 1789) Sans culottes – without knee-breeches Nobles seeking to look like the rest of the
population Cotton favored over silk, velvet, lace, etc Tricolor cockade – new symbol of the
nation, lives at stake Dull colors – cost effective and mood
appropriate
Works Cited Ribeiro, Aileen. Dress in Eighteenth-
Century Europe: 1715-1789. Revised. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Democracy and Global Diversity Notes. Loras College, 2007.