Getting Dressed in the 18th Century:
Aristocrats: video 1, 7 minutes; video 2; 5 minutes; hair tutorial, 13 minutes
Working Class: video 1 , 5 minutes; video 2, 2 minutes
Eighteenth-Century European Dress (The Met)
Links to Wortley Montagu Portraits
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with Her Son, Edward Wortley Montagu, and Attendants (Attributed to Jean Baptiste Vanmour, c. 1717, held by the NPG, London)
Detail of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with Her Son, Edward Wortley Montagu, and Attendants (Attributed to Jean Baptiste Vanmour, c. 1717, wikicommons)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish Dress with Page (Attributed to Jonathan Richardson, c. 1725, held by the Bridgeman Art Library)Le Bain turc (1862) based on Wortley letters; BW (315)