Dress of the reign of King George II, 1727~1760.


Dress of the reign of King George II, 1727~1760. She wear a pink hat with plumes and ribbons, a tight bodice with lace cuffs, and a full crinoline petticoat. Based on Thomas Jeffery’s “Collection of Dresses,” Gray’s Inn Journal, Spectator, Rose Bradwardine’s dress in Sir Walter Scott’s “Waverley.” Handcoloured lithograph from "Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria,” London, Dickinson & Son, 1840. 48 mounted plates of women's fashion from 1066 to 1840 based on effigies, manuscripts, portraits, prints and literary descriptions.


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