Robe à l’anglaise (retrousée dans les poches)
French | 1780
Silk | Kyoto Costume Institute
Round gown
1795-1805
Source Unknown - do let me know if you know it.
Banyan
Britain | 1780-1820
Silk | V&A
Sometime in the 18th century some lucky girl wore this.
Gorgeous color, no?
Looks like a round gown, though I can’t tell for sure. But I’d bet on it - you can’t see a line of separate skirts.
Gown
Britain (gown) & India (fabric) | 1795-1800
Hand-painted cotton | V&A
I am such a sucker for chintzes. Isn’t this lovely?
Open robe
England | 1795-1800
Printed cotton | V&A
Gown
Britain | 1735
Spitalfields silk | The Met
Gorgeous. The notes say that Janet Arnold (what are you doing, not owning her books?) said this shows no signs of later alteration - fascinating.
Love mantuas. Really I do.
Dress | c. 1780-85
“The hoop has changed from the square shape of earlier decades to a round profile…”
Well, not really. Pocket hoops show up pretty consistently in the 1780s, and eventually it transitions into a bumroll, but we’re by no means outside of the pannier-type silhouette quite yet. Just not as wide.
Also, please cite your sources! This helps enable folks to do research and helps make the field better.
This was worn at court probably between 1775 and 1789.
Jacket (pet-en-l’air) and petticoat, late 1760s
Kyoto Costume Institute
Stays
Europe | 18th c.
Baleen, silk, leather, cotton | the Met
Robe à la Polonaise, 1774-1793 (+details)
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extant fashion from the 18th century.