Women’s Apparel

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Mrs. Harris

    • Shifts

    • Stays (also, women not wearing stays and women in exposed stays)

    • Panniers

    • Pockets (and visible pockets)

    • 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

    • Painted silk gowns

    • Mantuas

    • Riding habits

    • Jackets, including the pet-en-l’air, caraco, and pierrot

    • Bedgowns

    • Shortgowns

    • Striped clothing

    • Zone front gowns

    • Modern re-creations made with fabric from IKEA

    • Monochrome Print Gowns

    • Illustrations of women wearing print garments

    • 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

    • Cloaks, including cardinals; also working-class short cloaks and more fashionable capuchins, mantelets, and pelisses,

    • Embroidered petticoats

    • Engageantes, lacy ruffles or sleeve-flounces

    • Equipages & chatelaines, several with watches

    • Fly fringe

    • Garters

    • Kerchiefs & fichus

    • Knit gloves and leather gloves

    • Masks

    • Maternity clothing

    • Mitts

    • Muffs

    • Neck Ribbons

    • Parasols

    • Patterned handkerchiefs

    • Petticoats bound along the bottom

    • Pocketbooks

    • Purses, reticules, work-bags, etc.

    • Quilted petticoats

    • Ribbon embroidery

    • Sleeve buttons

    • Spangles on fans, gowns, purses, and shoes

    • Spectacles

    • Stockings (and clocked stockings)

    • Stomachers (and compères)

    • Tambour embroidery

    • Upcycling

    • Waistcoats

    • Women in men’s coats

Fashionable Dresses in the Rooms in Weymouth 1774