Marie Antoinette's

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has an incredible collection of 18th century frocks, and I just had to share the...

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Fabre d'Eglantine.  Oil on canvas, around 1775-94. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France This week's fashi...

 "His forehead was large and his features strongly marked, he had rather a down cast, though a steady, look. His eyes were blue an...

  Joseph Wright, Sir Brooke Boothby . 1781, Oil on canvas. Tate Gallery. Here we have Sir Brooke Boothby, a poet of sonnets.  He was also ...

Suit.  Fench,  1765-75.  Silk, metallic, metal, cotton. Metropolitan Museum of Art.   Buttons were worn on garments as early as t...

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni.  Portrait of a Man in a Green Suit, oil on canvas. Dallas Museum of Art.  Today's fashionable male is actually...

1) This suit boasts a a herringbone-pattern which stands out in cream, pink and brown against a soft aqua.  It is silk with metallic detail...

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein,  Nicolas Châtelain. 1791, oil on canvas.  Neue Pinakothek. Nicolas Châtelain was born of a F...

George Kein Hayward Coussmaker was born in 1759 in Kent.  His family was Dutch, and his ancestor John de Coussmaker was said and most ...

Historically inspired frocks for men: Yay or nay? Fashion fun or fashion faux pas? Will you or your man be throwing these on onc...

I know I am jumping a little ahead of myself here, time wise, but I found  this post , and I thought maybe some of you might enjo...