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Content: History Magazine - The 1750s
The 1750s
A scrapbook of events happening 250 years ago. Most Popular First Names
GIRLS        BOYS
   Mary         John
   Elizabeth    William
   Ann          Thomas
   Sarah        Richard 
   Jane         James
   Margaret     Robert
   Susan        Joseph
   Martha       Edward
   Hannah       Henry
   Catherine    George

Fashions in the 1750s. Few people would have been able to dress as elegantly as most of the people shown here. THE MID-1700S WASan unusually interesting period. It was just prior to enormous changes that would reshape the world. Most of Europe was still suffering a slowly falling standard of living for ordinary people, a trend that had been continuous for 300 years. Britain was an exception to this. From about 1700, prices had been falling, albeit slowly, and wages were increasing. The 1750s were also an age of elegance. Men's fashions reached a peak of extravagance that has never been equaled.