1740s fashion

1740s English silk taffeta dress with silk and metallic threads (Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Massachusetts, USA). From thefashioncomplex.tumblr.com/image/153557783900 via pinterest.com/katmaxoz/18th-century-fashion/.

💬 0 🔁 59 ❤️ 169 · Dress and petticoat (Robe Volante) · French about 1730 MFA Boston

Woman's gown * brown Garthwaite silk damask 1740s (silk); remade 1775-1780 Brown silk damask, woven in asymmetrical floral pattern. Linen lining. England, Spitalfields

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1740s Scottish working woman's tartan wool ensemble(Here's another I'm posting about from *the future* - ah, how remiss in never finishing up these projects! But here goes...)There wasn't much for previous posts about this costume. I did a bit of planning and researched embroidered stomachers,

A woman's sack, petticoat and stomacher, 1765-70, English; Ivory silk brocaded with large floral motifs, Spitalfields, 1747; altered 1870-1910

Friday Treat! A close-up look at the beautiful silk of this 18th century ensemble, on display from TODAY 🎉 The silk was woven around 1740 with a design just bursting with peonies, carnations and tulips. The robe was later re-modelled, but still has its matching shoes and clogs!

Allan Ramsay EDINBURGH 1713 - 1784 DOVER PORTRAIT OF MISS FINCH, THREE-QUARTER LENGTH, SEATED, HOLDING A GARLAND OF FLOWERS signed and dated, lower right: A Ramsay / 1744

Morning dress in two parts (robe à la français) French about 1740, with later alterations Object Place: France ACCESSION NUMBER 43.647a-b MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Silk; Naturalistic style; floral and fruit designs brocaded with polychrome silk threads on brown silk satin and lisere ground; trimmed with ruching; non-period accessories: fichu (neckerchief), engageantes | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gown Robe volante, Europe 1740s. Brocaded silk. A transitional style between the tent-like version of the early 18th century and the more structured robe à la francaise. The brocade had been designed and positioned so the floral pattern creates a mirror image.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Period Rooms Reoccupied in Style," November 27, 1963 –January 5, 1964.New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Eighteenth-Century Woman," December 12, 1981–September 5, 1982