#1720s

[artschoolglasses]

Les Heures de la Nuit, costume design from 1720, print from 1821, Francois Seraphin Delpeche and Hippolyte Lecomte

From Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820,

[frostedmagnolias]

Purse

c. 1701-1730

gold, silver, silk, metal

London Museum

[history-of-fashion]

1720-1730 Mantua (Spitalfields (weaving), England (sewing))

silk, silk thread, silver-gilt thread; hand-woven brocading, hand-sewn

(Victoria and Albert Museum)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Pierre Louis Goudreaux, Woman with Monkey (1722) (detail)

via the dallas museum of art

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Satin cover, 1720-30, England.

[thesobsister]

(Woodcut depicting the “sink or float” method of seeking out witches, featured in The History of Witches and Wizards (1720) - PDR)

via @publicdomainreview

[fromtheheather]

The Declaration of Love (c. 1724) - Jean François de Troy

[intergalacticfop]

This jacket is the result of more than 2 and a half years of work, entirely handsewn! It represents the interest in equestrian and equestrian-inspired clothing as fashionable attire in Europe during the late 17th and into the 18th centuries.

I copied it from a jacket held by the Met Costume Institute, accession number 1981.314.2. When I emailed out to them for more information about the jacket, one of the collections people was even kind enough to pull it out of storage and take some detailed shots of the exterior AND interior (thanks Marci!!!)

The Met dates it to the 2nd quarter of the 18th century which could be true--but there are several features of this jacket that could easily be dated earlier to the late 17th century, like the button size and layout. I plan to mull over this more in a later post. At least, I would definitely place it in the earlier end of that 1725-1750 range. However, I chose to style it for the 1730s/1740s because it's Fun For Me 🙂!

One of the most fun parts was gathering accessories to go with the jacket! I steamed a wool hat blank into the tricorn shape and applied the silver trim, made some detachable undersleeves based on paintings by Pietro Longhi, and threw together a matching neck ribbon as if I was some kind of ornamental poodle