Fashion and culture from the 1700s.
Posted Nov 2, 2009 at 15:07 CET in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.
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Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, 1787.
I discovered American portrait painter Ralph Earl through the great blog 18th century American women which I’ve featured here earlier. I love his slightly naive paintings with great attention to costume and detail, and depicting one of my favourite fashion periods, the late 1780s and early 1790s.
Ralph Earl on Wikipedia.
A short Ralph Earl article at Bolton Community News.
An extensive biography of Ralph Earl at Worcester Art Museum.
Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic on Amazon.
Posted Oct 9, 2009 at 18:07 CEST in Fashion, Photos, and Societies.
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Here’s a link to a Canadian society that reenacts the 1750s, the Société d’Histoire In Memoriam. The costumes are very accurate and beautiful and there are tons of wonderful photos on the site!
Posted Sep 15, 2009 at 20:19 CEST in Costumers & web shops, Fashion, and Links.
Pimpernel Clothing makes men’s clothing in 18th century styles, but meant for modern people. I think it’s a great idea. So far they only have waistcoats, but coats are on their way as well.
We set up Pimpernel Clothing to design and create clothing and accessories inspired by the beauty and quality of craftsmanship of period garments.
They also sell wonderful replicas of 18th century (and earlier) card decks.
Posted Aug 10, 2009 at 11:32 CEST in Fashion, Forums & communities, and Links.
Historical Sewing is a brand new 18th century fashion forum started by Madame Berg. I hope it takes off!
Posted Aug 4, 2009 at 17:13 CEST in Costuming, Events, Fashion, Flickr, My costumes, Photos, and Swedish events.
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Photos from the day I visited the Lyss till 1700-talet event at Skansen a couple of weeks ago. I wore my new outfit.
Posted Aug 4, 2009 at 14:36 CEST in Blogs, Fashion, and Links.
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A new swedish 18th century blog, My 18th century!
Posted Jul 13, 2009 at 15:34 CEST in Buildings and interiors, Fashion, and Photos.
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This is a photo Kathryn Parker took of me last summer in the Echo temple in the Haga park.
Posted Jul 13, 2009 at 15:20 CEST in Costuming, Fashion, My costumes, and Photos.
I’ve been working on this outfit for a couple of weeks and now it’s finally finished enough to use. I still have to line the jacket and add more gold fringe around the “skirt” part of the jacket (peplum?), but otherwise it’s all done. It’s a late 1780s pierrot jacket from The Cut of Women’s Clothes: 1600-1930 by Norah Waugh and a simple sheer jupe made from no pattern at all. I’ll hopefully be wearing this to Skansen next weekend.
Does anyone have any tips on where to find really sheer fabric to use for a fichu, or know what type of fabric to look for? All the really sheer fabrics I find tend to look very obviously synthetic. I don’t mind if it’s a not a period correct fabric as long as it looks like one.
Posted Jul 2, 2009 at 13:28 CEST in Artists, Drawings and prints, Fashion, Georgiana, Paintings, and People.
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Portrait of a lady said to be Lady Bessborough.
John Downman was an English portrait painter and he’s one of my favourite 18th century artists. He made lots of beautiful little portrait drawings.
As always, let me know if you know where to find more or bigger pictures or perhaps know of a book featuring his work.
Posted Jul 2, 2009 at 11:51 CEST in Fashion, Paintings, and Photos.
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Empress Maria Feodorovna by Voille, 1792.
I’ve been fascinated by Russian dresses of the late 18th century for a while. They have a pretty unusual style and are very beautiful. A lot of them seem pretty similar to the robe à la turque to me, with the “t-shirt” arms, but some seem to have a kind of vest, and the court dress I saw at the Fastes de cour exhibition had yet another vest-like style that I realised looks a bit different to all of these portraits when I looked at the pictures together.
Does anyone know if there are any books on 18th century Russian dress? Though preferably not in Russian :)
Posted Jul 1, 2009 at 23:34 CEST in Drawings and prints, Fashion, and Fashion plates.
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1770s.
Posted Jul 1, 2009 at 22:50 CEST in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.
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Portrait of a lady, said to be Marie-Madeleine Guimard, called Mademoiselle Guimard, ballerina of the Paris Opéra.
I can’t find any information about the artist Jean-Frederic Schall on the internet, but he did a lot of paintings of dancers, as well as romantic and erotic paintings. Most of the paintings I’ve seen seem to be made in the 1780s. He did some lovely paintings and if you have any tips on where to find more paintings and information do let me know.
Posted Jul 1, 2009 at 15:21 CEST in Fashion, Marie Antoinette, Movies and television, People, and Photos.
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I finally sorted through and edited my Jefferson in Paris screencaps. When I wrote about the movie earlier I just showed a few pictures I found on the internet, but after the cut are 145 new screencaps.
Edit: Fixed the screencaps so they won’t take so long to load.
Posted Jun 30, 2009 at 17:51 CEST in Buildings and interiors, Exhibitions, Fashion, Flickr, Museums, and Photos.
I just returned from a short trip to Paris where I visited the Fastes de cour exhibition at Versailles. It was an amazing exhibition and I was particularly happy to see a Russian court dress and the most beautiful yellow redingote.
Edit: The exhibition ended a couple of days ago.
Posted Jun 7, 2009 at 15:51 CEST in Fashion and Movies and television.
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After the cut are two commercials for Magnum Temptation that I recorded from TV, plus a few screencaps. They feature people in 18th century costumes, some of which are really beautiful. I’m wondering if the costumes were made for these commercials alone (probably not) or if they’re from a movie or something. Some of them look pretty similar to some costumes used in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette.