my18thcenturysource: Inspiration: baby blue menswear This week I’ve posted a LOT of menswear

my18thcenturysource:

Inspiration: baby blue menswear

This week I’ve posted a LOT of menswear (from the incredibly ugly Moschino collectiontomodern and antique embroidery and the perfect macaroni outfit), so let’s begin the weekend with this little selection of baby blue menswear very much in the mood of the pink menswear post.

Baby blue is a nice colour elegant and easy to the eye, is somehow discreet and offers a nice contrast with gold and yellow embelishments and a cold and similiar background to grey and silver.

And of course we must add that pastel colours rule.

Photos from top:

• Still from the 2001 Swedish mini-series “The Marriage of Gustav III” (Gustav III:s äktenskap)
  
• “Portrait of Jean Charles Garnier d’Isle”, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ca. 1750
  
• Three-piece suit made of silk with metallic-thread passementerie, French, ca. 1765
• Porcelain blue waistcoat made in London with textile made by Peter Lekeux and designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite, brocaded with silver-gilt poliate and appiquéd with polychrome silk, 1747
• Wool suit, British, ca. 1780
• Waistcoat with same colour silk embroidery, made in China for the Western market, ca. 1740
• Blue three-piece suit with golden embelishments, French, ca. 1725-1750 (detail and waistcoat)
• “Portrait of a gentleman (maybe Armand Guillaume François de Gourges, Marquis of Vayres and d’Aulnay), Jean Valade, 1753
• Three-piece suit of silk with moiré finish embroidered with sequins and metallic-thread, France, ca. 1760
• “Portrait of Marie-Joseph Peyre”,  Marie-Suzanne Giroust, 1771