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Content: There were no anesthetics and women sometimes in childbirth. Infant mortality was high. About one child in four died before their fifth birthday. Most married women had several children but not all would survive. Womens Clothes in the 18th Century
Women wore stays (a bodice with strips of whalebone) and hooped petticoats under their dresses. Women in the 18th century did not wear panties. Fashionable women carried folding fans. Fashion was very important for the rich in the 18th century but poor people's clothes hardly changed at all. In the 18th century pale skin was fashionable. So were dark eyebrows.