Costumes of the late 1600s and early 1700s

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Costumes of the late 1600s and early 1700s

• By
• Nate Irwin

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Quotes from 18th century

•  How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet
  holds the eel of science by the tail. (Pope
  Alexander)
• The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
• The devil looks after his own.

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Words describing time between 17th century and
18th century

• Religious
• Scared
• Unfair
• Witchcraft
• Reformed

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Male and female clothing of this time.

• Males did not have a lot of choices. They wore
  boots and their garb consisted of knee high
  breeches and long socks. They wore long coats and
  a waistcoat.
• Females unlike the men the females had a variety
  of clothing to choose from. The average female
  would have more then one gown one to walk around
  in one for cleaning one for parties an one for
  church and they would also have more. There
  average gown consisted of jewelry, a cap, a
  petticoat and possibly a caraco (or under dress)
  

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Colors of this time

• Colors that women wore were more dull they wore
  colors like ivory, sand, light blue, blue-grey,
  silver, and pink. Men also had dull colors but
  they were darker things like black and brown were
  mostly found only on them. Black was usually worn
  by the rich because it was harder to make the
  less wealthy wore more muted pale or dull colors.

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Fabrics of this time

• Types of fabrics used in this time were
• Wool usually only used during cold weather
• Silk which was expensive but very popular many
  people wore it.
• Linen is what people wore if they couldnt
  afford silk.

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Movies taken place in 17th and 18th century

• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Dracula
• Brave Heart
• The Man In the Iron Mask
• The 3 Musketeers
• The Patriot
• Sleepy Hollow

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Trends from this period used in other centuries

• The waist coat became a big trend in the early
  17th century and didnt start to die off till the
  end of the 18th century.
• Knee high breeches were first used a lot in the
  early 16th century they didnt start to die off
  this the early 19th century. Men still where
  reformed knee high breeches to this day.

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Characters costumes
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This is the type of robe I would have my
character wear. However I would make it a longer
powdered wig so it came down to his shoulders and
he would have a golden pocket watch with the
chain hanging out of his pocket.
This is the basic type of robe I would have my
character, Parris, wear. However, I would make
the robe longer and a slightly darker color, He
would also wear a wooden cricifix necklace. The
fabric would be silk to show that he was more
wealthy then others.
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Characters costumes

• This is the basic type of clothing I see my
  This is the type of clothing I see
• Character Procter wearing except he would
  the character Elizabeth wearing
• Have a brown hat, no cane, a brown coat,
  except all the brown part would
• A lighter brown waist coat, and brown boots.
  be light blue and she would be
• Both the coat and waist coats fabrics should
  wearing a simple silver

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