1. Introduction.
2. Conclusion.
3. Words and expressions.
4. Resourses.
The essential lines of eighteenth–century costume were, as we have noted in the previous chapter, already laid down in the last twenty years of seventeenth. The enormous prestige of the Court of Versailles had already resulted, all over Europe, in a willingness to accept, in matters of fashion as in much else, the dominance of France. Henceforward fashionable clothes meant, for the upper classes at least, French clothes.
Costumes in the 18th century had been influenced by those of earlier modes in that the materials were rich and splendid. Seriousness, rigidly, and dignity was the general idea of apparel. If we could begin to understand what it was like to be laced up in a corset every morning or dressed in linen or wool, we can begin to look at the human aspects of their daily lives, which are concealed in early records. Clothing was needed for both warmth and comfort just as it is today, but the need was quickly abandoned if the occasion called for it. Terms like dress and undress were used in the 18th century. To dress was to where formal clothing while to undress meant to wear informal clothing (1). Dressing was critical to both men and women in the 18th Century, in that it affected their daily lives from the details of their hair, multiple layers of clothes, and shoes.
Fashion in the period 1750-1795 in European and European-influenced countries reached (literal) heights of fantasy and abundant ornamentation, especially among the aristocracy of France, before a long-simmering movement toward simplicity and democratization of dress under the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the American Revolution led to an entirely new mode and the triumph of British tailoring following the French Revolution.
France, under the rule of Louis XIV, became the costume center...

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