Historical Clothing Buff Gifts

Maid asking whether waistcoats are to be the fashion for the summer

'Where's your fashion sense? The rotting carcass goes over the left shoulder.'

Victorian Lady

"Oh to be young and in love and wear things cut on the bias."

Baroque Peacock

A Macaroni in 1772

Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty HMS Pinafore

Blue Dress and Feather

Koko pleads with the Mikado

The Dandy

I want to hold your hand

Lady in a pretty dress

Ruff

Blue Dress

The Grecian Bend - Women's Fashion

Women's Fashion

Strong Female Lead

A meeting on the pier

A man wearing a ruff and a feather cap

Two Victorian men dancing

Men talking about the boots of the period

Ambrogio

Servant running after a couple dressed up for a fancy ball with the door-key

"I predict that men's fashions will remain relatively stable throughout the next century and a half, whereas women's will evolve continuously, and with the speed and illogic of a juiced-up tribe of rampaging Darwinian monkeys."

"So have you been watching Bridgerton?"

Flying Dutchman

"Imagine freedom 175 years from now when we can post our beauty routines for money."

Classical Fashion Changed Rapidly and Distincly the Very Moment That Jerky Teenagers Were Invented.

Duchess

A woman in a purple gown playing the piano

Historic and Modern Bath

'No more beans this week, I think, Matilda.'

A Head-Dress in 1777

"Now I'm well, I miss my doctor."

Paris Fashions, Winter 1863-64