Women’s Apparel
Gentle reader: I continue to migrate content over to this new site. These indices are not yet complete.
You may click on the activated links below to view the content that has found a new home here, or find what you seek at the older site at www.larsdatter.com/18c/women.html.
Your humble ſervant,
Mrs. Harris
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Stays (also, women not wearing stays and women in exposed stays)
Panniers
Pockets (and visible pockets)
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Pleated-back gowns, including robes à la française and sack gowns
Fitted-back gowns, including robes à l’anglaise and robes à la polonaise
Round gowns
Mantuas
Riding habits
Jackets, including the pet-en-l’air, caraco, and pierrot
Shortgowns
Striped clothing
Zone front gowns
Monochrome print gowns
Illustrations of women wearing print garments
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Bonnets
Caps
Hats, including straw hats
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Shoes
Mules and slippers
Clogs
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Cloaks, including cardinals; also working-class short cloaks and more fashionable capuchins, mantelets, and pelisses
Knit gloves and leather gloves
Women in men’s coats
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Aprons, with separate pages on bib-aprons, blue aprons, check aprons, pinner aprons, pocket aprons, aprons with whitework (Dresden work) embroidery, and embroidery patterns for aprons
Breast Knots and Bows
Dressing tables
Engageantes, lacy ruffles or sleeve-flounces
Equipages & chatelaines, several with watches
Garters
Handkerchiefs & fichus, and patterned handkerchiefs
Masks
Maternity clothing
Neck Ribbons
Patterned handkerchiefs
Petticoats, including bound petticoats, embroidered petticoats, and quilted petticoats
Pocketbooks
Purses, reticules, work-bags, etc.
Ribbon embroidery
Sleeve buttons
Spangles on fans, gowns, purses, and shoes
Spectacles, and tinted spectacles
Stockings (and clocked stockings)
Stomachers and comperes
Waistcoats
Wigs, tetes, and plaits: false hair and hairpieces
Women in men’s coats
