18th century blog

Eighteenth-Century European Dress at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A few photos and a little bit of information.

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.

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

I’m not sure this exhibition is still there, but earlier this year I visited Malmö museer, in Malmö, Sweden, and they had a small exhibition with a few 18th century clothes and objects.

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Livrustkammaren, or the royal armory, is a great museum located inside the Swedish royal castle. They have some great 18th century clothes and things in their permanent exhibition, and at the moment they’re having an exhibition about shoes, many of which are from the 1700s. The rest of their stuff is fantastic as well though, one of my favourite museums.

More info can be found at their website.

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