some of the wider fashionable influences and events of the 18th-century, reflect improvements in communication across Europe during the 1700s, a trend that increases as the centuries progress.
With the exception of George IV (1820-30), the Georgian kings were less showy in their personal fashion than their Tudor and Stuart predecessors, but they still had high standards and expectations of their courtiers. We’ve seen how dress was literally a ticket into court and the royal presence.
At the same time, during this period we start to see an increasing gap between styles of fashionable dress and that worn at court, particularly when it comes to the hooped skirts of the mantua.
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