Riding Habit - Style Gallery

Style Gallery

  • 1 - c.1700

  • 2 Lady Worsley - 1776

  • 3 1790

  • 4 - 1799

  • 5 - 1830s

  • 6 - 1850s

  1. Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne in a scarlet riding habit, with male cuffs, gold trim, and buttons, early 18th century
  2. Lady Worsley in a riding habit with a cutaway coat and waistcoat, and military details from the uniform of her husband's regiment, then in America fighting the rebels, 1776.
  3. Button-front redingote of 1790, worn with a tall hat.
  4. Fashion plate of 1799.
  5. 1830s habits show the popular full sleeves of the day.
  6. 1850s habit, worn with fashionable ringlets under a top hat.

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