1750–1775 in Western fashion
Videos
Fashion in the years 1750–1775 in European countries and the colonial Americas was characterised by greater abundance, elaboration and intricacy in clothing designs, loved by the Rococo artistic trend
A Concert in an Interior by Jan Josef Horemans the Younger of Antwerp, 1764. The women's sack-back gowns and the men's coats over long waistcoats are characteristic of this period.
English or French court dress, c. 1760, with wide panniers. Taken at the Fashion Museum in Bath, England.
Princess Henriette of France in court dress playing the viola de gamba, c. 1750–52, by Jean-Marc Nattier
Lady Mary Fox wears a grey silk hooded Brunswick gown with striped ribbon ornaments, 1767
Mobcap
Videos
A mobcap is a round, gathered or pleated cloth bonnet consisting of a caul to cover the hair, a frilled or ruffled brim, and a ribbon band, worn by married women in the 18th and early 19th centuries,
Simple American bonnet or mobcap, in a portrait by Benjamin Greenleaf, 1805
1778
A portrait by English landscape and portrait painter, Joseph Wright of Derby, of an unidentified woman sporting a large mobcap
1789