#NachtderMuseen

Recording of the talk I held at the Night of the Museums about the change of womens fashions in the late 18th Century. This is just a very rough, somewhat reductive overview so in case you want to get more detailed information, here are some books I recommend to that end:
Weber, Caroline: Queen of Fashion. What Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution, New York 2006.
Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion 1. Englishwomen's dresses and their Construction c. 1660-1860, London 1984.
Baumgarten, Linda and John Watson with Florine Carr: Costume Close-Up. Clothing Construction and Pattern 1750-1790, Williamsburg, Virginia 1999.
Byrde, Penelope: Jane Austen Fashion. Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen, 2008.
Davidson, Hilary: Dress in the Age of Jane Austen. Regency Fashion, New Haven and London 2019.
Hart, Avril and Susan North: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Fashion in Detail, London 2009.
Percoco, Cassidy: Regency Women's Dress. Techniques and Patterns 1800-1830, London 2015.
Fashion: Eine Modegeschichte vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Köln, 2015.
I know I talk really fast.