Eighteenth-Century European Dress | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryDress of the eighteenth century is not without anachronisms and exoticisms of its own, but that singular, changing, revolutionizing century has become an icon in the history of fashion. The eighteenth century was a time not without memory. Its masques and remembrances of the seventeenth century were vivid, if occasionally comical. If we observe the traffic that colonialism and world markets built,
