18thcentury: i wish i owned this dress <3
Stomacher
1760s
Switzerland
©The Kyoto Costume Institute, photo by Toru Kogure
titam: i wish i could dress like this now
Queen Anne (1665 - 1714), by Jan van der Vaardt, Willem Wissing, circa 1685-1686.
Queen Anne was the last of the Stuart dynasty to occupy the British throne. Shown here aged eighteen, seductively dressed and posed in a sumptious interior, her reign was dominated by war with the French and her failure to produce an heir. She had twelve children, none of whom survived beyond infancy and many miscarriages. Her most important domestic act was the union of the kingdoms of Scotland and England in 1707
