Crown to Couture exhibition reveals red carpet celebrity gowns echo costumes of 18th-century aristocrats
“Pray put on your best suit of clothes you ever had in your life,” Josiah Wedgwood wrote in 1765, “and take the first opportunity of going to court.”
Those who did would find an overwhelming spectacle of silks, brocades, ruffles and diamonds, as those wanting to impress the Georgian royal court showed off their wealth and power through the medium of dress.
