I lived for a few months in rural India and went to a tailor for clothing. It was still much the same as you described. Pick out fabric, pick out style, get measured and then return for the final garmet. It was absolutely lovely. I have never felt as luxurious as when the tailor was *literally* throwing fabric across my lap in order for me to feel the quality.

Thank you for covering all the menswear! The gowns are gorgeous but the suits are definitely my thing. Appreciate you.

I would love to hear about working women fashions in 18th century! Did they wear entirely different types of garments or just more understated versions of genteel ladies clothing?

For breeches vs. trousers, and a modern day comparison - we have coveralls for manual work, tradespersons, construction. I see people wearing those in the grocery store and it's not a scandal, but I immediately think they are coming from/going to work, and wouldn't be wearing those just day to day.

I was totally excited when I saw the proper, wild 1820's/30's updos in the "present day" shots of Charlotte's daughters. My fingers are crossed that they keep those crazy fun updos for the next season of Bridgerton!

I always get so exited when I see that equestrian portrait of Wilhelmina of Prussia. Even though there are several portraits of noble woman riding astride in the 18th century. But considering that Guérinière revising the seat marks the beginning of the very height of the equestrian arts, it's no wonder that some woman got more ambitious or that the riding habit became a staple in fashion.

I'm always amazed by the history told through fashion. The amount of layers is impressive, specially when I remember that the Brazilian aristocracy and common folk also use all that layers, cause here in Brazil ir hot year long, the average is 75 - 85 f, but the fashion of the time came from Europe with the royal family, and everybody wanted to imitate them, so layer upon layer in a 80 degrees day, I'm so happy i wasn't born back then.

could you make another video on The Great's costumes? I feel like over the 3 seasons they have been evolving the fashion, the dresses had become way larger in the last season. It's also not a historically accurad show, but I think they take a lot of inspiration from history and also it is set on Russia, which is far from france, so is an intersting look in how the fashion would spread, like how the use of the paniers seem to have appeard for them just after Chaterine's mom came visiting from france

The QC costumes weren't as bad as I was expecting (maybe the bar is on the floor now 😂). Defs à la Bridgerton but the silhouettes and decoration were very reminiscent of the period and it was clear the designer knew and appreciated the source material. And I appreciated the breeches even though they're not as sexy as pantaloons/trousers imo 😂

I always appreciate when an expert int their field engages with media this way. It doesn't matter if the series was not looking to be historically accurate and took a lot of liberties, as the added knowledge only enhances the viewing experience, imo.

If I could go back in time and change one name of something, I would get rid of the word "whalebone" because the mass misunderstanding of all structural undergarments from that word frustrates me.

Love that detail about the mother’s clothing choice and how it informs her character in the scenes. ❤

My favourite place to visit when in London is the V&A (Victoria and Albert) museum. The Fashion collection is the largest and most comprehensive fashion collection covering couture, accessories, footwear and hats. There are lots of KZfaq videos. I found the video showing conserving of dress worn by the singer Sandy Shaw in 1967 really interesting.

I am working on fantasy book with bunch of illustrations placed in this time and oh lord will I have to write down all the names of you amazing people to thank you for helping me understand big parts of this period

Love that yellow dress, love your puffy shirt, love your vest, and I love this topic!

4:42 I am impressed at the different fabrics pieced to form the interlining.

i would like to hear more about the few odd fabric choices we're "not gonna worry about today"

where i live "un pet" also colloquially means butt, so i guess pet-en-l'air could also mean "butt in mid-air"

Excellent overview! Thank you for taking the time to discuss both the accurate and inaccurate parts, with consideration of modern sensibilities and production.

So excited for more 18th century stuff from you! Thanks for all the information. My sister and I really enjoyed watching the show and as historic clothing enthusiasts we also felt it did quite a good job of evoking the look of the era. It's nice to hear the same from a professional. 😁 Also, besides the clothes, I really enjoyed the overall story of the show. It took me a minute to get into the fantasy history aspect, but once I was there, i fell in love with the characters.

For anyone in the London area, the Queen’s Gallery has an excellent exhibit of Georgian fashion on right now.

This is definitely my favorite era in fashion history 😍

Have you seen The Slipper and the Rose? It’s a Cinderella adaptation and the era they set it in is the 1700’s. Even if you don’t do a video I know you’d like it and appreciate the costuming!

OMG OMG I’m soooo excited you made a video in thisssss

I am so excited to see a full series of 18th century fashion videos.

I'm so excited for this series❤

Sounds like you have an exciting summer planned. I can't wait to see it!

such a lovely vid

A great overview and wonderful illustrations! Thank you.

Thanks for taking time to share your knowledge and perspective.

I’m really looking forward to seeing your upcoming projects 🙂 This was a very interesting video; thanks for sharing.

Another fantastic vdieo, really enjoyed it. Can't wait to see what you have in store for us the rest of the year!

This is fascinating, I’m so glad you finally got to talk about your era as it were :))

Thank you so much for another excellent video! I always enjoy your videos and learn a lot from them. One note if I may- I think that in a video that discusses the costumes of the show, you should mention the name of the designer and give her/him credit. If you did and I missed it- my apologies. ❤️

Great info! I have no interest in watching completely historically inaccurate shows/movies, but I do like looking at and learning about the costumes.

I love your videos. So interesting. Please keep them coming. Also I found Brooklinen a few years ago while just looking around the internet. I love their sheets. What a great sponsor to have.

Thank you for this facinating and informitive video! Ps your hair color and makeup in this video are perfection!

You chose the most wonderful pictures to illustrate this informative talk! Thank you.

So excited for the upcoming episodes. My wife and I do 18th century living history with a group at our local state park. It’ll be great to see a deeper dive into the fashion and clothing of the era.

Darn apparently I need to get out more. I had no idea this series was a thing. Thank you for letting me know and the historical overview!

Yaaaaay! 18th Century!!!!! I can't WAIT to see your lovely, well-researched and thorough take on the garments! I wish you'd addressed that silly speech in the first episode (you did use a still from it when talking about redingotes) where Charlotte talks about how "whales died so their bones could be used in this dress, so I have to sit very carefully or the bones will break and my dress will stab me to death!!" It was funny, but totally inaccurate.

Yes!!! Thank you for this, Nicole. :) I thought that George's wedding suit looked pretty good, although like you said, not as fitted as it should have been. I loved Charlotte's gowns too and thought the silhouette was pretty perfect, even if some details were understandably off :)

I love these types of videos from you. I was looking for a Costuber to have lunch with and There you were 😊

Do you have any resources or can you possibly do a video on all the styles and proportions of cocked hats? I'm having a hard time finding any details on the differences over the decades of the 18th century.

yay! one of my favorite eras in fashion!

If done well (Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte, The Wheel of Time and others) fantasy+historical costuming is so much fun to watch. Actually I find myself drawn to 17th, 18th century mens' jackets and outerwear which I perversely try to duplicate in my RenFaire cosplay! Even several of my "reality" coats and jackets mimic (albeit not as well-tailored) elements from those designs. Looking forward to further episodes of Nicole's series on 18th century's fashion.

I've been waiting for the costume peeps' review/info.

fun fact regarding the white undergarments and the picture of the white fabric being bleached - all over Eurpe there is still streets named "on the bleachers" or similar because the villages and cities had designated meadows where you would bring the whites to bleach in the sunlight, everyone knew these were "the bleachers". usually there was a creek nearby to re- wetten the fabric because the water from wet fabric and the oxygen from the grass (photosynthesis) made basically peroxide.

The show was so good. And while obviously not perfect the outfits were so lovely!!

Your videos just keep getting better holy shit!! :)

Amazing video once again 🤩 I would love a video on the evolution of the woman fashion decade per decade for the 18th century :)

it's so interesting because I'm studying fashion in 1750-1800 in Chile, Latin America and the way of styling the clothes, the fashions and even the way of making the clothes it's so different from the Europe context. Here there were no mantua makers, just tailors and eventually in the most rich part of this subcontinent (such as Mexico or Peru) dressmakers and merchand des modes arrived from France. Here in Latin America, the dressmakers did not make the clothes itself, but rather ornate them and add all of the accesories.

As a person that embroiders small things, i really admire the embroidery on these clothes.

I actually have a friend working on embellishing for Bridgerton!

21:40 That's not the only reason. Biblical dresscode actually requires a *married* woman to cover her hair, esp. during prayer. In German an idiom for "getting married" is equivalent to "wearing a bonnet" ("unter die Haube kommen").

What was the protocol for wearing sac backs ? Like was it appropriate for certain occasions or could they be worn at any time?

I really want to make a men's suit at some point - so some videos on it sounds great! 🙂

Thanks. In your future robe a la francaise episode, will Bailey be cast as Queen Charlotte's Pom aka 'deformed bunny' to quote the Queen.

I’m another one interested in working women’s clothes from the time. I have traced a few of my family lines back to this period and as there are no pictures of them it’s a way of visualising what they could have looked like.

I think it's astonishing how long stomachers stuck around in women's high fashion. The end of the medieval period until the regency. That's a long time.

Question: why do they refer to dressmakers in the show as the modiste when every historical costumer refers to them as mantua makers, dress makers, etc?

Nicole, have you ever seen the 1985 film REVOLUTION? It has Al Pacino and Donald Sutherland in it. I was wondering how accurate the films costumes were.

Every time I see historical clothing that only fastens with buttons I just imagine needing to pee badly and struggling with all those buttons.

The was a lot of Zone front Gowns, from the 1770s/80s, I noticed, particularly on young Violet! Fichus were popular in this era, tho possibly not for royals?

When learning about vintage patterns, I was often told they weren't very detailled because people "knew the basics of how to sew back then" sonI find it interesting that it wasn't always the case. Is there a point where that changed or is it (at least partly) a misconception of the past? Now I'm curious ☺️

The Bridgerton series is super fun, but so far I liked Queen Charlotte the best. I prefer the Georgian style to the Regency styles, but what hooked me the most was George’s struggle with mental illness. I frequently cried during this series, it moved me so much, and Charlotte really learned how to stand up for herself and be an advocate for a George in this interpretation. Great video! Thanks for the deeper dive into the fashions of the series!

Snappy Dragon has a lot of good hair care videos. She’s a trained hair dresser, but most of her hair stuff is medieval.

At 19:00 you show a yellow dress with a bustled up skirt and I looked it up in the MET gallery where they call it a Robe à la Polonaise. But is that really a Polonaise? Is it not maybe an English or Italian gown but bustled up? Can you please help me out here, because I still struggle differentiating the different construction styles from each other? Thanks you in advance.

Has anyone in the comments seen any good patterns for vests and cropped jackets like we wore during the emo days? they're so reminiscent of regency men's military fashion.

Why does the dude in blue 11:03 have a button undone/missing? Being painted like that is definitely a choice.

I would like to know why some gentlemen have their hair with one, two or three boucles down each side of the head. Natural hair or wigs. Is it to do with class or just personal choice. Xx

Thank you for showing pictures of fashionable men with big bellies, like me. 😊

I would like you to make a video about fashion in Witcher 3

I’ve seen pictures of men from this time period a billion times but I never realized they were always wearing capri pants, 😂. That’s so weird.

The whale bone comment made me sad😢when I heard it came from their mouth! You give us so much wonderful information with plenty of visuals ( yum Gainsborough paintings which I will be looking again closer at King G lll as now I know how he manipulated the backgrounds to convey messages) Whales, save the whales ❤ only several hundred left out west in Canada 🍁 🙏. ..back to video 😊

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5:02 did you say that cheap silk was far LESS expensive than a middling sort of wool? I would expect silk to cost more than wool!!!

I almost turned off after the carriage 'whale bone' 'corset' convo. But I stuck with it and somewhat enjoyed it. Focusing only on commenting on the costumes rather than the issues I have with characterisation, the retconning of my countries history which I think erases the lived experiences for poc. Back to my point. I did like that Charlotte expressed her identity through her clothing like asserting her power through her wedding dress. I would have done it so that maybe all the english establishment dressed in particular colours or more plainly, and then Charlotte sets the trend and all the ton follow suit but the Queen mother. not just specific colours but a real life native german pattern of say the national flower, she imports them for displays or wears them on her clothes,They sort of did that but it could have been clearer. Maybe touched on colonialism and fashion. Had hoped with season two and the intro of indian main characters, they would have touched on Muslin production, slavery and empire, diamond mining, and stolen jeweled from empire ruled countries, cultural appropration of turburns durring the regency times, as these are modern issues too, and can support the messaging of the show, in showing the struggles of poc rooted in real life history, it was right there. Likewise having a black queen and the connection to black women and wigs wearing today, again they could have flipped history and implied it was Charlotte who introduced England to avant garde wigs, not true really but they also say she brought over xmas trees so heck make stuff up but do it that makes narrative sense. say she brought over botox too, go the whole hog. I believe one of the tudor-set drama serise did this with Anne boylen and the French hood. they could have it when the queen is favoured and producing heirs the white ton copy her, but when she steps out of line, they resort back to the Queen mother's style. lastly, I did dislike how they tried to make George 3 a pusedo-prince Albert, if anyone has seen itv's victoria, Albert tries to reform england, advocating for abolishment of slavery, introducing sewers, clean water, industry ect which he actually did. Here they do the same thing with his farming, saying he wants to help england and be a good king by introducting horse drawn ploughs? As far as I know this isnt true, and only serves to retcon the real George who did very little to help england, he did not end the empire, nor slavery, not give people sufferage, nor bring poverty down etc. that is why i think what they were trying to do would somewhat work in 1840s, like with itv's victoria. the real Charlotte and George did nothing for poc people [not saying victoria and albert did any better but it at least alines historically]. likewise, i recommend Harlots as they discuss British 'free'/ citizens who are black vs American black people, a really great way to discuss it, a American widow and her children [of a planation owner] become the property of her step-son/ their step-brother who is white and inherited the man's plantations. a male britishman who is black tries to help them get money to buy their freedom. I also feel like it was similar to the Marie Anntonette film in that Charlotte is board so just eats, wear nice clothes etc, I do think they could have explored that more, maybe Charlotte became the gossip, ton obsessed as a distraction and set that up here, or throws loads of parties, buy lots of clothes, match-making etc. I did like that at least like that lady Bandburry wears a chemise under her stays, and that they appear to use the correctly shaped ones.

I just want my men's regency period jacket.

7:59 this is also because as the new Queen of the British Empire, she has to be seen as supporting the new subects by dressing as they do.

You mentioned Abby's videos but didn't link to them :(

My knowledge is basically what I've been learning on yt channels, like you, Abby, or Bernadette. But everytime I see the king in scene, I get bothered about his hair style! It looks like they didn't even tried to make it historical! What about wigs?

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Loved the show and George and Charlotte's love story but his hair just kept taking me out of the fantasy

I think once you accept the fact that they aren't going for historical accuracy, there are some beautiful costumes. I was disappointed with Queen Charlottes costumes though, a lot of them were so plain and her skirts very narrow compared to some of the other characters and even extras. It just doesn't sell the fact that she is the queen, especially when her costumes in Bridgerton are so over the top

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An 18th century man dressed with short, unpowdered hair looks pretty much naked to me.

The complete lack of attention for the mens hair in this was quite jarring. It was odd that old KIng George did have the styled white hair wig look but for young George they decided to just go with a modern short hair cut? It just looked so out of place.

Charlottes first monologue about the “stays” she says corsets instead was highly misleading and kinda made me mad. She literally said her stays were made of bone from whales

I still can't get past "fart in the air"

I don’t know when boar bristle brushes and the 100 strokes came in, but those 100 strokes were one way of cleaning the hair and woman could go months without washing their hair. Try it. It will surprise the hec out of you.

"Cheaply made but fashionable" ...so. Shien.

What?!? Air drying is not practical depending on time of year? I have not used a hair dryer in years, live in Vermont, USA, and keep a cold house because I heat by wood. Sleep by the fire and yer fine!

"There's is no book, no sewing patterns" unless you can read French. XD

Love the Georgian era - its the era i love the most and your mens wear examples are fabulous. BUT!! Cant stand Bridgerton, and IMHO this was just as painful to watch. Cannot fathom why its popular.

I can't watch this show. I tried. Everything looks cheap. I think I prefer the way Harlots took on the 18th century. Both in. Costume and set design.

The introduction about 18th century wear was very good, but it felt rushed and "out of breath". However the "analyzing" the costumes of the show was definitely NOT delivered. It would need the video to be another half as long to do that. Just a few general thoughts is not "analyzing". We need the historical stuff and then examples from the show, analyzing where it is faithful and where it fails (Bernardette did this quite well for "Emma", just to quote an example) Very interesting video, but not what the title leads us to expect. Maybe for reasons we don't understand you wanted to keep the video to a certain length. I can understand that, but in that case, split it into two parts and do it properly!

and to think that charlotte could have been sliced open by the whalebones in her corset…. ts, ts, ts….

Queen Charlotte was my ancestor and she was Portuguese and she wore white skin, because she was white. She is one of the few historical characters in this shit show and they lied about her heritage. The actress who played her says British royals are too British and too white. Anyone else said that about any other people. There would be mass boycotts.