What forms of clothing were used by aristocratic men and women in the 17th and 18th centuries

The clothing of the aristocracy was mainly made of cotton, satin and brocade. With the addition of lace, prints, and other processing ultimately became the 17th century Victorian fashion Rococo style clothing.

The word Rococo comes from the French word Rocaille, which means small stone, small gravel. As a term of art style, it referred at first to artificial wigwams and caverns built with shells and stones, and later to decorative motifs with curves of shell motifs.

Eighteenth-century European court aristocrats prevalent Rococo style, Rococo clothing is a significant feature of the soft and delicate, weak and soft, which makes the entire clothing style tends to be soft, complex, exaggerated shape, soft and colorful and natural form of the decorations, to give a person a luxurious and romantic visual effect.? Rococo period colors commonly used white, gold, pink, pink green, yellow and other delicate colors. The colors on the clothes also showed soft and flamboyant shades, such as sweet champagne and cream Rococo clothes pursued a soft and delicate mood. In order to imitate the natural form, the decorations and other parts of the costume are often made into asymmetrical shapes, and there are many variations.

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HistoryIn the 18th century, the bourgeoisie of the countries of Western Europe continued to develop. Capitalist forces gradually increased, the social structure has undergone profound changes in the mid-18th century, the industrial revolution in Britain, greatly accelerated the process of capitalism in Western Europe. In terms of culture and art, France remained the center of Western Europe.

The emerging bourgeoisie continued to accumulate wealth, and the absolutist Louis dynasty gradually lost its vitality and was on the eve of its decline. In the upper class, a bourgeois salon culture (salon, i.e. "parlor", "living room") emerged as opposed to the court dominated by the king. It refers to the social gatherings of the aristocrats and bourgeoisie in Western Europe from the 17th century onwards to talk about literature, art or political issues. (

This kind of gathering was especially popular in France in the 18th century). In this kind of salon, people only pursue the happiness of the present world and official pleasure, which makes people's senses unusually sharp, thus forming a different cultural form from the solemn and luxurious court culture of Baroque, which is the famous "Rococo style".