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18 th Century Clothing By: Aaron Capelouto And Jesse Baker

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18th Century Clothing

By:Aaron Capelouto

AndJesse Baker

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Introduction• 18th Century was a time of social revolution

and economic development.• Clothing was a main symbol of one’s social

standing.• Each social class (upper class elite, newly

expanded middle class, and servants) had their own respective clothing.

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Upper Class Male• Dressed in wool, silk, and other expensive

fabrics.– Trade played a key role in men obtaining

their desired clothing.–Comfort was hardly ever considered.– Fashion followed the colonists from England

to the New World.

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Male Clothing Piece by Piece

• Three cornered hat• Wig• Coat and Shirt• Britches• Stockings• Shoes• Cane

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Upper Class Female• Like men, women would don clothing

from many corners of the Earth.• Women often flaunted expensive jewelry

and other accessories.• Sometimes women were expected to

perform all their domestic duties and were subject to alter their clothing.

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Upper Class Female Piece by Piece

• Hat• Wig• Lace neck kerchief• Stomacher, gown, and

stays• Petticoat• Shoes• Gloves

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Industrial Revolution and the New Laborer

• The Industrial Revolution led to the growth of the urban middle class who possessed a greater distribution of wealth.

• English tailors began to make their services more widespread to this new burgeoning middle class.

• New inventions such as the spinning wheel made higher end fabrics more available to the general populous.

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18th Century Servant in Bondage

• Servants wore cheaper fabrics than the upper and middle classes and were often darker and rough to the touch.

• In the south, generally “men and women have many times scarce clothes enough to hide their nakedness, and boys and girls, ten and twelve years old, are often quite naked among their masters’ children (John Woolman, 1757. Journal, &c., p. 150)”

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Maids and Servants

• Maids wore the same pieces of clothing as the middle and upper class females, but they were of much lower quality, and they rarely got new clothes.

• Most of their clothing was tailored to whatever duties they performed.

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Children’s Clothing• New era of psychological thought changed the

way children dressed.• Clothes were now made to exclusively fit their

young bodies rather than small adult clothes.• Very young children of both genders wore

dresses.• Toddlers wore padded hats to protect their

heads.• Some children were forced laborers and their

clothing was bland and perpetually dirty.

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Children’s Clothing

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Region• In more rural areas in the American colonies and England,

families were compelled to be self-sufficient because of their separation from the intellectual hubs of the larger cities.

• Clothes were often made of leather and other makeshift fabrics.

• The shirt of the frontier man was made without ruffles at the neck in contradiction to urban males, whose shirts had multiple ruffles.

• For the American colonists, the Native Americans had a large influence over them.

• The frontier man was expected to weave his own cloth or suffer the consequences.

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War and Other Conflicts

• There were a number of barbaric conflicts in the 18th Century.

• War of Spanish Secession (1701 to 1714)• Seven Years’ War (1756 to 1753)• Ultimately leads to English dominance in

Western culture and society.

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Conclusion• Clothing in the 18th Century was a combined

response to the political conflicts in Europe and America.

• The industrial revolution created a new middle class that in time began to diversify their clothing.

• The importance of clothing is captured in the literature of the 18th century, and its subsequent symbolism reveals clothing’s immense impact on society.

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