Ensemble ca. 1740 British By the early eighteenth century, the skirts of men's formal coats became so generous that a woman observed in The Spectator, "The skirt of your fashionable coats forms as large a circumference as our petticoats." Drawings and paintings of the period reveal the feminine silhouette achieved by such full-skirted coats. The men's coats, which fall to the knees, almost conceal the breeches, a feature that serves to enhance their dresslike Ensemble. British. ca. 1740. silk, metallic thread

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