1790s bonnet

Always looking for new dress-up opportunities, I contacted JASNA to see what Atlanta-area events might require head-to-toe Regency finery. Turns out local Jane Austen fans are (I suppose understandably) more about the author's stories than her clothes. Despite my potentially offensive insistence that there's no point h

Princess Amelia is shown as an alluring Lady wearing a striking deep blue bodice and Spencer over a tight-fitting white skirt. Either her Spencer has long tails or she is, more likely, wearing a wrap decorated with black lace that matches her Spencer. She also wears a matching blue hat decorated with a ribbon over a tight-fitting white ruffled hood. She is wearing a tight neck cover, possibly a cravat with lace endings peeking through her Spencer.

August 1798 Journal des Luxus und der Moden

Did America get the revolutionary symbol of the Phrygian Cap / Bonnet Rouge from France or vice versa?

Parisian millinery fashions in 1802 were something that English newspapers always remarked about because fashionable women, such as

Regency Fashion

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It is easy to think of the Regency as romantic – duels, elopements, dashing bucks and gorgeous gowns. But the slang of the period soon dispels that, as do the some of the images of the time, …