Title: 1770-1779 | Fashion History Timeline
Headings: 1770-1779
1770-1779
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Womenswear
Men: Waistcoats began to shorten; Macaroni imitators”
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1770-96 – Agostino Brunias, Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape
1770s – Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom
1778 – David Martin, Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth Murray
1778 – Joseph Siffred Duplessis, Benjamin Franklin
1778 – Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott
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Content: Stays forced a proper standing posture. Garments like these could not be washed often because of the fabrics from which they were made. The Enlightenment produced a backlash against sumptuary laws which asserted a stagnant social hierarchy. During the Enlightenment, court dress stayed almost the same while outside of court dress, fashion became less extravagant and shifted more towards comfort rather than courtly display.” Of 1770s changes in fashion, Wikipedia writes: “Women: robe à la française or sack-back gown; robe à l’anglaise or close-bodied gown; the Brunswick; tall hair and headdresses
Men: