Costume & Fashion. Gender - Public Space

Dame fashion in Paris and London, 1780 to 1788.

The origin of the hooped skirt. The Farthingale, Petticoats, Leghorn Chips.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates. The Golde Age of piracy.

THE life of a pirate on the high seas was hardly likely to attract even the most adventurous woman, yet according to records left by Captain Charles Johnson there were at least two who followed that calling, dressed in sailors’ clothes, and who lived and fought in desperate frays in the early eighteenth century.

White satin shoe of Lilias, daughter of the 12th Earl of Eglinton.

White satin shoe of Lilias, daughter of the 12th Earl of Eglinton and was worn by her at her marriage about the middle of the eighteenth century.

Ninon de Lenclos. The Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century.

Ninon de L’Enclos was a French liberal and educated intellectual, feminist, writer (La coquette vengée “The Flirt Avenged”) and lover of many also famous contemporaries. She was one of the outstanding women of the ancien regime, the participation in their Jours was a great society honor.