Title: A History of Women's Clothes
Headings: A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOMEN'S CLOTHES
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOMEN'S CLOTHES
By Tim Lambert
Women's Clothes in the Ancient World
Women's Clothing in the Middle Ages
Women's Clothes in the 16th Century
Women's Clothing in the Americas
Women's Clothes in the 17th Century
Women's Clothing in the 18th Century
Women's Clothes in the 19th Century
20th Century Women's Clothes

Content: Women's Clothes in the 17th Century
In the 17th century women wore a linen nightie like garment called a shift. Over it, they wore long dresses. The dress was in two parts the bodice and the skirt. Sometimes women wore two skirts. The upper skirt was gathered up to reveal an underskirt. From the mid 17th century it was fashionable for women to wear black patches on their faces such as little stars or crescent moons. Women's Clothing in the 18th Century
In the 18th century women's clothes were basically the same as before. In the 18th Century, both men and women wore wigs. Women wore stays (a bodice with strips of whalebone) and hooped petticoats under their dresses. Fashionable women carried folding fans.