1700s fashion

A late 18th-century <n>Cape</n>, known as a Cardinal cloak, from <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

Woman's Dress (Robe à la française and Petticoat)

A linen and whalebone <n>hoop petticoat</n> from Great Britain, ca. 1750.

Detail from <n>Anton Raphael Mengs</n>'s 1765 painting, <n>María Luisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias</n>.

<n>Corset</n> in silk brocade, linen, and whalebone, ca. 1780. From <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

Detail from the painting <n>Madame de Pompadour</n> by <n>Francois-Hubert Drouais</n>.