1780s dressing the different social classes, english fashion

In this video, I get dressed in English fashion from the 1780s as an upper-class lady, middle-class and working-class woman. I go through the different garments worn to create the style. But keep in mind these are just examples showcasing the different socio-economic status in dressing, in the 18th century there was a huge secondhand clothing market making fashionable and expensive goods available to a much broader audience so that social lines in dress often blurred making it hard to distinguish one’s wealth based on dress. Also, this is a time when the middle classes were on the rise, making them much wealthier than before.

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