

Take Two Gowns: Mid 18th Century Features
Images of sketches above and below from Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail: 1730 to 1930'. George G Harrap &Co Ltd. 1968 Pages 17/18. I have bought a dress. An 18th Century dress. The ideal dress to compare with this beauty sketched by Bradfield from the Snowshill Manor Collection. Exciting times! The robe sketched here is made of figured silk. Mine is plain silk. But they have something in common; the colour of each dress is Georgian yellow. There is no other yellow like Geo