Please see the Appin Regiment's guidelines for Women's Clothing -- I've consolidated the grid from this page with the Appins' guidelines.
Other sources:
18th C. Women's Clothing Guidelines for American Revolutionary War reenactors
-- a bit later than 1745, but mostly applicable
A
Mid-18th Century Picture Gallery of Women's Clothing
(Caveat: Please be aware of the moral messages
the painter is trying to convey in these pictures. Often, painters
would show someone wearing items a certain way -- for instance, stays
unlaced or no stays to indicate a 'loose' woman -- to make a point.)
I've removed the hyperlinks to these pictures
because the sites have changed the locations of the artwork, and I
don't have time to track down the new locations; do a Google search
for them by name and artist.
Paris Street
Cries by Bouchardon; 1737-1742 (Figs 178-221).
Broken Eggs by Jean Baptiste Greuze (1756)-- look at the kertch-like
item worn by the old woman; interesting parallel to the Scottish
kertch.
Le Geste
Napolitain by Jean Baptiste Greuze (1757)
Greuze: The Spoiled
Child (1765)
Chardin: Grace
before the meal (1761)
Chardin:
Girl Peeling Vegetables
Chardin:
The Attentive Nurse (1738)
Chardin:
The Laundress (1730s)
Chardin:
The Return from Market (1739)
Greuze: The
Laundress
Fragonard:
The Stolen Kiss
Liotard:
The Chocolate-Girl (1743-1745) -- Swiss
Later time period, but informative:
Plucking
the Turkey by Henry Walton (1776) -- wearing bedgown, checked
apron
A Woman
doing Laundry by Henry Robert Morland
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