🎩 HELLO SISTERS! LET’S GIVE A CHANCE FOR GENTLEMEN ART.
In the 18th and early 19th century it was very much the fashion for men to wear some stunning waistcoats, so today we’re going to take a pictorial look at some stunning waistcoats from a variety of museums and galleries. Why don’t we see anything quite like these today? Perhaps time for a revival, maybe!
A French embroidered waistcoat dated between 1785-1795 shows Dido and Aeneas in a scene from Didon, a 1783 opera by the Italian composer Niccolò Piccini (1728-1800). Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
The first items is truly stunning especially when you look at the detail of the bottom of it. I can’t imagine how long that must have taken to sew.
I thought it was worth also taking a look at newspaper adverts to see who was actually selling waistcoats and how much they cost. Whilst there are plenty of adverts, none of them tell us…
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