Women in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries were challenged with expressing themselves in a patriarchal system that generally refused to grant merit to women's views.

Dec 17, 2020 · For women, colonial clothing was all about layers! Shift and stockings, bum roll, stays, petticoat, maybe another petticoat if it’s cold, jacket or gown, apron, and top it off with a …

Many women, as the year 1790 approached, tended more and more to follow the masculine mode of dress. The cut jacket and coat were very fashionable. The coats were made with lapels …

Oct 10, 2020 · Women’s hairstyles between 1700 and 1709 were similar to those of the preceding decade with the front hair arranged in curls on either side of the forehead and the back hair in …

Beauty was important to women, but, perhaps, it was even more important to men, because it was a man who noted in the late 1700s that a woman’s “first merit is that of beauty.”[1] People …

Women’s stockings, until the middle of the seventeen-thirties, were of all colours, green being one of the favourites. They were worked with clocks of gold, silver, or coloured silks. About 1737, …

Fashion in the period 1700–1750 in European and European-influenced countries is characterized by a widening silhouette for both men and women following the tall, narrow look of the 1680s …

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 17th-century women of England. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:17th-century English people. It includes English people that …

Mar 14, 2021 · Some women played a prominent part in religion in the 18th century. Anne Dutton (1692-1765) was a Baptist theologian. Sarah Crosby (1729-1804), Sarah Ryan (1724-1768), …

In the American colonies, women of the 1700s were greeted with horror after the overwhelmingly one-sided gendered massacre against women known as the Salem Witch Trials. Between …