Costume of a lady of quality, tradeswoman, gentleman, worker and child, 17th century.
Fashion during the reign of James II, William and Mary, 17th c.
Category: 1685
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.
Barbados Colony in 1685. Reign of James II.
This plate represents a soft brocade gown which was brought from England to the Barbadoes Colony in 1685.
Robes. Les modes sous Louis XIV. L’Histoire du Costume Feminin.
L’Histoire du Costume Feminin Francais. Les modes sous Louis XIV, 1643-1715. Étiquette somptuaire sous Louis XIV.