18th century blog

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.

The Los Angeles county museum of art has a great collection of 18th century items to see online. They also have some great 18th century fashion drawings.

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

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.

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

Nehelenia designs
Historical costumes, mostly 18th century.

EDIT: Has new address: http://www.historicalclothing.net

The costumer’s guide to movie costumes
A site with pictures of 18th century costumes from movies.

Muxa’s gallery
Lots of pictures from and related to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette movie.

The Kyoto Costume Institute
Lots of photos of actual 18th century clothes.

Historical costumes by Bjarne Drews
Absolutely amazing costumes and embroidery. He also has another website with some more things: http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph

Early dance gallery
The gallery of some dance society. Lots of it is baroque and other time periods, but there are some 18th century costumes there as well. Make sure to click the “old gallery” link at the top.

La couturière parisienne
Really great sites with lots of pictures and information. Has a great How To section.

Period makeups
This site shows photos of makeup from 18th century movies.

Durán Textiles AB
Great site that sells wonderful reproductions of 18th century fabrics. Also has lots of photos and a great newsletter. Too expensive for me but I love looking at the site.

Sarah Juniper
Handmade shoes. Pretty much the only site I’ve seen so far that sells 18th century shoes that aren’t boring simple black leather.

Topsy Turvy Design
Hat maker who has some fantastic 18th century hats.

Nordstjernan
Amazing 18th century outfits. The text is in Swedish only but if you don’t know Swedish you can probably still figure out how to see the photos.

The costumes of Marie Antoinette
A site mainly about the costumes from Marie Antoinette movies, but there are also some photos of actual 18th century clothes, as well as lots of photos from 18th century movies in general.

Gustafs skål
Swedish 18th century society. Great site with lots of information and photos. Also has a calendar with upcoming 18th century related events in Sweden, and a great links archive.

Lumières
I’m not sure if this is the site for the entire society, or just for one of it’s events, but it has some nice photos in the gallery section.

Les menus plaisirs
Not exactly a society, but a performance company. Lots of great photos and a newsletter. Even some videos!

I have a flickr group called 18th century fashion. It’s not terribly active but pretty good so far.