The beauty of the 18th century

[lanadelrey25]

Ah yes, the age of guillotines and powdered wigs! There probably wasn't much beauty in the political world or the nations relationships, but this era produced some of the most delicate and beautiful fashions and art. I am not near as passionate about the 18th century as I am the 19th and early 20th, but I have love for the beauty of all era's. We'll be focusing on France and England because they were the founders of the fashions and art I will be listing below.

That hair:

Yes, they had bugs and in some extreme cases even small rodents, but it looked good!.....

The ornate hair of the prominent women was, you have to admit, quite stunning.

The clothes, oh how splendid! :

my favorite <3

The shoes:

Just like the Edwardian period, they were obsessed with tiny, dainty feet.

The jewelry:

Down below is one of Marie Antoinette's necklaces, this piece of jewelry caused quite the controversy in her time and it involved sex, lies, affairs and scandal galore. Definitely a contributing factor to her death at the guillotine.

In France during the French revolution , it became fashionable for the women to wear a red ribbon choker around their necks to symbolize their protest against the guillotine and pay homage to the ones who lost their life to it.

The art:

And my personal favorite titled "Love Letters"

Look how loving they are! It looks so genuine and adoring it brings tears to my eyes. The way he gazes so lovingly and romantically at his lady...

I hope you enjoyed this insight into the beauty of the 18th century! <3

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for sharing the 18th Century with us, My Great Grandparents were born in the latter part of the 18th Century come to the USA from Scotland and their first Daughter was born in Chicago Illinois in 1912, then once they got settled they took home in Donora, Pennsylvania where my Grandma was born 1913, yes the older days was amazing

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks For Most Helpful Guy :)

[Siavash_1990]

Excellent read (as usual with your mytakes) Enjoyed it very much.

[Siavash_1990]

Siavash: <<<< Thinks to self: Man-O-Man, too many pieces of clothing i had to take off women back then if i had lived back then and had gotten lucky... Beautiful tho, would not had minded

[Siavash_1990]

:)) time travel

[Siavash_1990]

Thank you for the MHO

[lanadelrey25]

You're welcome

[ct1243]

Omg , this resonated with my soul - sense of familiarity. Welcome to the family of kindred spirits/ possibly soul family. Definitely a resemblance of that era and spiritual connection. Past lives remember past lives. This is truly beautiful 😍

[lanadelrey25]

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! <3

[ct1243]

Yes I think we have a knot of a soul family ; there’s a spiritual circle ⭕️ . YW 💕

[GraceMarie01]

Wow! I appreciate how much time you spent making this post, I can tell it took a long time to do. I have always loved the fashion of this era... I never knew that the women wore red ribbons around their neck that is so damn cool!

[lanadelrey25]

Thank you so much! I'm really glad some people appreciate this, it did take a while lol. I have some more time period my takes

[GraceMarie01]

Omigosh props to you girl, what other time period do you love?

[lanadelrey25]

A glimpse into the beauty of the Edwardian time period ↗ My favorite is Edwardian (1901-1910)

[lanadelrey25]

I'll post one more you might like My second style of clothing to fit my alter ego ↗

[menina]

I only liked the jewelry. Apart from that this wouldn't be a good time for me to be alive unless I was white.

[lanadelrey25]

It wouldn't have been a good time for really anybody, french royalty were being beheaded left and right by the English and women were being burned alive for being witches. You didn't even like the dresses?

[menina]

Yes, I know that. But being a slave wouldn't be good either.
The only dress I liked was the first one. They look uncomfortable and too big for me.

[lanadelrey25]

I bet they were itchy as hell

[menina]

Yup they do and heavy as well.

[Anonymous]

i really only like the dresses and jewelry. i don’t think anyone would actually want to live during that time period.

[lanadelrey25]

I never said anyone did

[KatherineJ]

Beautiful, but can you imagine trying to wear those dresses on a daily basis?

[lanadelrey25]

Lol, I wouldn't mind to much. but the whole process of getting ready is like over an hour long!

[KatherineJ]

@lanadelrey25 and who has time for that?

[lanadelrey25]

Plenty of people, royalty did lol

[KatherineJ]

I suppose. Can you imagine walking around wearing one of those everyday though?

[lanadelrey25]

Yeah, it would be awesome and annoying

[KatherineJ]

That’s one of my issues with wearing fancy dresses like that. You don’t realize how much space those full skirts take up, and you bang into things. Ok, so I’m not so graceful sometimes.

[Deathraider]

I mean there were some super weird stuff as well.

Hey! My hair is a boat.

[Jjpayne]

A very romantic time but I could do without those heavy annoying hair pieces 😊

[Gwenhwyfar]

The Age of Enlightenment. Plus I loved Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette.

[B2281]

There was certainly a beauty about it. But I have to agree that the 19th and turn of the 20th century probably had the best fashion. However I do like 18th century Revolutionary American fashion.

[najekim]

And don't forget the time where it was very fashionable for ladies to wear dresses with their nipples exposed as part of the dresses décolleté.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Your taste is definitely unique and unmistakable.

[Anonymous]

You again? This site is so cliquey

[lanadelrey25]

What do you mean by "you again" ?

[lanadelrey25]

Yeah, you literally made 0 sense

[lanadelrey25]

cli·quey
adjective: cliquey; comparative adjective: cliquier; superlative adjective: cliquiest

(of a group or place) tending to form or hold exclusive groups and so not welcoming to outsiders.
Yeah, this isn’t for anyone specific, literally anyone can appreciate the beauty of fashions from another time period lmao

[COMMODOREII]

Cool lol