The eighteenth century fashion Dress
Dress of the eighteenth century is not without anachronisms and exoticisms of its own, but that singular, changing, revolutionizing century has become an icon in the history of fashion. The eighteenth century was a time not without memory. Its masques and remembrances of the seventeenth century were vivid, if occasionally comical,observe the traffic that colonialism and world markets built, we know that cultures of dress,eighteenth-century style arise in shapes and silhouettes. Dilated hips, especially as achieved by panniers (1973.65.2; 2001.472), are a point of attention. Likewise, the corseted waist, especially with extreme restriction of mobility as might be indicated by a center-front dip well below the natural waistline dress would always be a measure of eighteenth-century theatricality and sensuality