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Eighteenth Century Women's Dress: Techniques and Patterns book cover

1st Edition

Eighteenth Century Women's Dress Techniques and Patterns

By Cassidy Percoco Copyright 2027
144 Pages 80 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 80 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Eighteenth Century Women’s Dress: Techniques and Patterns features patterns drawn from twenty-seven extant eighteenth-century women’s garments in museum collections, with a focus on Anglo-American and French styles. The styles explored in this book illustrate the full variety of women’s clothing of the period, ranging from foundation garments and casual chemise gowns to sumptuous robes à la... Read more

1. Stays, 1700-1725  2. Blue Robe Volante, 1715-1735  3. Grey Robe Volante, 1715-1735  4. Jacket, 1720-1740  5. Blue Wool Stays, 1735-1775  6. Yellow Wool and Silk Stays, 1735-1775  7. Gown, ca. 1750  8. Gown,  ca. 1750, remodeled ca. 1780  9. Gown, 1745-1755  10. Sacque and petticoat, 1755-1775  11. Sacque and Petticoat, 1770-1775  12. Quilted Petticoat, 1740-1770  13. Gown and Petticoat, 1775-1785  14. Gown,1780-1785  15. Gown, silk ca. 1735, made or altered ca. 1780  16. Gown and Petticoat, 1780-1787  17. Gown, 1780-1787  18. Robe à la Polonaise, silk ca. 1735, made ca. 1778  19. Robe à la Harpie and Petticoat, ca. 1787  20. Gown, 1787-1793  21. Caraco, 1785-1790  22. Fitted Chemise Gown, ca. 1790  23. Chemise Gown with Full Sleeves, 1795-1805  24. Chemise Gown with Fitted Sleeves, 1795-1805  25. Maternity Gown, 1770-1810  26. Stays, 1795-1805  27. Habit Shirt or Fichu-Chemise, 1780-1800

Biography

Cassidy Percoco is the curator of the John L. Wehle Gallery at Genesee Country Village & Museum. She is also the collections manager at the Fenimore Art Museum and Fenimore Farm & Country Village and the author of Regency Women’s Dress: Techniques and Patterns 1800-1830 (Batsford, 2015). She holds an M.A. from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Fashion and Textile History, Theory, and Museum Practice.

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