More on the 17th Century Gunnister Man's Clothing.

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_086/86_030_042.pdf
http://www.sarks.fi/masf/masf_3/MASF3_04_Christiansen_Hammarlund_Ciszuk.pdf

https://olivershetlandwoolblog.home.blog/2019/09/01/the-gunnister-man/

https://costumehistorian.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-gunnister-man-project.html?showComment=1594794113837#c3304220977359633827

Shift Manual.

http://thegoldenscissors.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/shifting-into-high-gear-shift-manual-is.html

Period Clothing. Export From India.

This is a Petticoat. It is dated 1700–1750 and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is cotton and its technique is mordant and resist painted and dyed plain weave (chintz).

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18418063/;

The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center Rev War camp follower.

The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center Rev War camp follower

https://www.facebook.com/18thCenturyMaterialCultureResourceCenter?fref=nf

The Real Deal on Tartan, Kilts, and Outlander Costumes

… the habite of the Highland men … is stockings (which they call short hose) made of a warm stuff of divers colours, which they call tartane … A jerkin of the same stuff that their hose is made of; their garters being bands of hay or straw, with a plaid about their shoulders, which is a mantle of divers colours, much finer and lighter stuff than their hose, with blue flat caps on their heads.

http://www.frockflicks.com/the-real-deal-on-tartan-kilts-and-outlander-costumes/

New Rogues Gallery. The 1642 Tailor.

More info & images here: http://the1642tailor.com/2015/02/17/new-rogues-gallery/

French Clothing in the New World. Part One.

By John Buxton.

“During their travels across Canada, the French [canadiens] dress as the Indians; they do not wear breeches.”

– Peter Kalm 1749

“Those who go to war receive a capot, two cotton shirts, one breechclout, one pair of leggings, on blanket, one pair of souliers de boeuf, a wood-handled knife, a worm and a musket when they do not bring any. The breechclout is a piece of broadcloth draped between the thighs in the Native manner and with the two ends held by a belt. One wears it without breeches to walk more easily in the woods.” - d’Aleyrac, 1755-1760

“The mitasses are some kind of very wide gaiters with the two sides sewn together approximately four fingers from the edge with no buttons or buttonholes. - d’Aleyrac,

1755-1760

“…& about sixty militiamen with a kerchief on their heads and wearing shirts and their backsides bare in the Canadian style.” - Pierre Pouchot , 1755-60

By John Buxton.

“The brahier  is a piece of deerhide or broadcloth that Europeans give them, it is a quarter or third (of an ell) of broadcloth that men pass between their legs as if they were riding a horse; this piece of cloth passes on a thong tied around the hips, the two ends hanging in front and in the back, the front is longer then the back.”

-J.C. Bonin, 1750’s.

French milita By Frances Back.

“What are called mitasses or mitassonnes in Native language are some kind of stockings that Canadiens make with two half-ells of broadcloth, or one ell of molleton cut in two, for each leg and sewn the length of the leg and the width of half the width of the calf so that the leg can get in, with an excess of four or five inches wide that is left free along the side of the leg, the bottom can be put in the shoe and the legging can be held in place with a garter tied above the calf. When one wants to be more fancy, one trims these with straight or wolfe-tooth pattern, along the edge.” -J.C. Bonin, 1750’s.

“To this end, I laid aside my English clothes, and covered myself only with a cloth, passed about the middle;

a shirt, hanging loose; a molleton , or blanket coat; and a large, red, milled worsted cap.” - Alexander Henry,

1761, disguising himself as a Canadien voyaguer.

“It is not uncommon to see a Frenchman with Indian shoes and stockings, without breeches, wearing a strip of woolen cloth to cover what decency requires him to conceal.” – Jonathan Carver in Detroit. 1766

Ladies Hat Found In Cottage Wall.

Wardown Park Museum has revealed the latest addition to its famous headwear collection; a rare 400-year-old wide brimmed hat recovered from the interior wall of a 17th century cottage in Essex.

The fragile 18th century lady’s hat, which is only one of four of its kind in the world, has been carefully treated for pests to limit further damage to the hat itself and also to rule out any risk of contaminating other hats in the museum’s collection.

Wide brimmed hats were popular with women in the eighteenth century, and like this example recovered from behind the cottage wall, were often decorated with motifs over a linen lining.

It joins a holding of hats and headwear that reflects a long and distinguished tradition of hat-making in the city dating back to the 17th century. Hat making and millinery dominated the town in the eighteenth century.

The museum’s Significant Collections Curator, Veronica Main describes the storage of the hats as a "pest management environment control nightmare" due to the combination of materials including metal, fur, straw and wool.

The new arrival has been subjected to a technically advanced anoxic treatment within an oxygen-free chamber to eradicate any insect infestation and is now safely on show to the public.

 
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/work%20%26%20daily%20life/art407571

Women's Clothing from 1700-A Link.

http://www.americancenturies.mass.edu/activities/dressup/notflash/1700_woman.html

Bra not a modern invention? 15th Century bra unearthed

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bra-not-a-modern-invention-15th-century-bra-unearthed/975685/

Of course it could be possible that these underpants were only worn during the woman's menstrual cycle to hold some form of pad in place. During the early to mid 18th century I believe it was considered not healthy for women to wear underpants, but I wonder if something like this was used at times?