Blue polonaise Colonial dress 1700s
The dark blue 1700s dress with pale underskirt. I made this one from scratch. It’s very similar to other dresses I’ve made this summer, like the grey colonial , the floral, Lady VanTassel, and cupcake colonial.
It’s not really a character yet. I need to come up with the ideal situation where I would wear this… It’s a pleasant outfit. Not too fancy. Zipper down the back. Pleated skirt, with some tucks. Might be a passable IceQueen.
1700s causal Historical Style. If you’re having trouble with the fashion timeline. After the Renaissance style 1300-1600, came the stiff and formal, ornate/extravagant styling called Baroque 1600-; which looked like the Three Musketeers for a while, very pilgrim-like, then fashion evolved into looked like Governor Swan in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film [it was a style fueled by King Louis XIV who lived 1643-1715].
Women wore headdresses made from lace and ribbons. After King Louis death, stylings softened into the elaborate Rococo style, which was still ornamental and theatrically decorative. Marie Antoinette lived 1755-1793, and had a excessively frivolous substyle all-her-own called Louis Seize 1770- [which was mostly famous for having tall wigs].
Common people looked very colonial / American Revolutionary like 1776-. Military uniforms were very stylish that decade.
Ostentatious fashions ended at The French Revolution 1789-1799... and then things started to look very Pride and Prejudice.
Photos by ToshiStudios.
It’s not really a character yet. I need to come up with the ideal situation where I would wear this… It’s a pleasant outfit. Not too fancy. Zipper down the back. Pleated skirt, with some tucks. Might be a passable IceQueen.
1700s causal Historical Style. If you’re having trouble with the fashion timeline. After the Renaissance style 1300-1600, came the stiff and formal, ornate/extravagant styling called Baroque 1600-; which looked like the Three Musketeers for a while, very pilgrim-like, then fashion evolved into looked like Governor Swan in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film [it was a style fueled by King Louis XIV who lived 1643-1715].
Women wore headdresses made from lace and ribbons. After King Louis death, stylings softened into the elaborate Rococo style, which was still ornamental and theatrically decorative. Marie Antoinette lived 1755-1793, and had a excessively frivolous substyle all-her-own called Louis Seize 1770- [which was mostly famous for having tall wigs].
Common people looked very colonial / American Revolutionary like 1776-. Military uniforms were very stylish that decade.
Ostentatious fashions ended at The French Revolution 1789-1799... and then things started to look very Pride and Prejudice.
Photos by ToshiStudios.
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