Southcoast historical associates

Posted Jun 13, 2007 at 22:43 CEST in Costumers & web shops, Fashion, Links, and Photos.

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Southcoast historical associates
18th century costuming site with some really beautiful stuff.

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Madonna at the 1990 MTV video music awards

Posted Jun 11, 2007 at 20:56 CEST in Fashion and YouTube.

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En bädd av dun

Posted Jun 11, 2007 at 16:05 CEST in Books, Gustav III, People, and Swedish books.

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En bädd av dun by Christopher O’Regan
This is a book about life at the court of Gustav III of Sweden, and also quite a bit about Gustav himself. I thought it was great. Fun to read and lots of interesting facts and stories. It is illustrated with paintings and drawings from the period, and also a few photographs of people dressed like 18th century people and of existing costumes and items from the 18th century. This book exists only in Swedish as far as I know.

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Photos from French event

Posted Jun 8, 2007 at 01:23 CEST in Events, Fashion, Journée Grand siècle, and Photos.

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Click the picture to go to a gallery with pictures from a French 18th century event. Found on this site.

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1776 fashion plate

Posted Jun 7, 2007 at 23:23 CEST in Drawings and prints, Fashion, and Fashion plates.

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Queen of Fashion

Posted Jun 4, 2007 at 23:09 CEST in Books, Marie Antoinette, and People.

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Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber
I got this book for Christmas and really really loved it. It tells Marie Antoinette’s story through her clothes. Lots of interesting information about 18th century fashion, and a very engaging biography. Not the slightest bit boring. It doesn’t have many pictures at all though so don’t expect a lot of illustrations. I highly recommend it.

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Dressmaker and assistant

Posted Jun 3, 2007 at 22:20 CEST in Drawings and prints, Fashion, and Fashion plates.

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1778

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Casanova

Posted Jun 3, 2007 at 20:29 CEST in Fashion, Movies and television, and Photos.

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Lasse Hallström’s Casanova is not fantastic, but it’s fun and charming and I liked it. Costume wise it’s pretty horrible, lots of outfits that look like cheap masquerade costumes and many ugly wigs. But there’s one exception and that’s Victoria, played by Natalie Dormer. Her outfits are beautiful and she was also by far my favourite character in this movie. I loved her. Some more pictures behind the cut.

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Silk dresses at Leeds museum

Posted Jun 3, 2007 at 16:43 CEST in Databases, Fashion, Links, Museums, and Photos.

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18th century silk dresses at Leeds museums collections.

Edit: This link no longer works, but you can still search the collection. You can find all 18th century clothing items here.

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Lacma

Posted Jun 3, 2007 at 15:36 CEST in Databases, Drawings and prints, Fashion, Fashion plates, Links, Museums, and Photos.

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Extant clothing

Posted Jun 3, 2007 at 15:18 CEST in Databases, Fashion, Links, and Photos.

There is a great compiled list of extant 18th century women’s clothing from all over the net at this costuming site.

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1770s hair

Posted Jun 2, 2007 at 22:00 CEST in Drawings and prints, Fashion, and Fashion plates.

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Asynchronous

Posted Jun 2, 2007 at 20:28 CEST in Fashion, Links, and Photos.

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Asynchronous
Photo shoot with 18th century clothes. Click the slide show link at the bottom of the page to see the rest of the photos.

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Drawing

Posted Jun 2, 2007 at 16:39 CEST in Drawings and prints and Fashion.

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I don’t remember where I found this so I have no information about it. Looks like 1770s.

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Suzi Clarke

Posted Jun 2, 2007 at 14:35 CEST in Costumers & web shops, Fashion, Links, and Photos.

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Suzi Clarke - Costumier
Historical and fantasy costumes, including some 18th century ones.

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