Dress, Italian, linen, 1725-1740
Printed banyan worn by George IV- 1770-1780
Caraco and quilted petticoat, 1770-90. Mode Museum.
This gown’s amazing floral silk material was hand painted in China in the 1760s. It was later imported to England where it was made into a Robe à l’anglaise circa 1785.
